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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: For 20 years, a loosely organized group of Wikipedia editors toiled away curating a collection of 15,000 articles on a single subject: the roads and highways of the United States. Despite minor disagree… Continue reading Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads
Researchers document the Wiki-Slack attack, a new technique that uses modified Wikipedia pages to target end users on Slack.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is remarkably transparent. Continue reading Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works
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Twitter’s long history of fighting Turkish censorship has ended with Musk. Continue reading Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk Weaker on Government Censorship Than the Twitter Execs He Fired
Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says. From a report: Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the website, says it would “violate our commitment to collect minima… Continue reading Wikipedia Will Not Perform Online Safety Bill Age Checks
In an interview with Daniel Hambury at London’s Evening Standard newspaper, Wales chews over some of the issues inherent with the technology – particularly its tendency to “hallucinate,” or flat-out make things up – but points out that “using AI to tri… Continue reading Jimmy Wales is considering using GPT to write Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million roubles ($27,000) by a Russian court on Tuesday after the authorities accused it of failing to delete “misinformation” about the Russian military from Wikipedia, the courts service said. From a report: Short… Continue reading Russian Fines Wikipedia Over Military ‘Misinformation’
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit against the National Security Agency challenging mass online surveillance. From a report: Turning away the Wikimed… Continue reading Supreme Court Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Challenge NSA Surveillance
Pakistan has unblocked Wikipedia in the South Asian market, three days after the online encyclopedia was censored in the nation over noncompliance with removing what the local regulator deemed as “sacrilegious” content. From a report: Shehbaz Sharif, t… Continue reading Wikipedia Unblocked in Pakistan After Prime Minister’s Intervention