Category Archives: Wikipedia

From a report on Motherboard: According to the results of a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years, only about 1 percent of Wikipedia’s editors have generated 77 percent of the site’s content. “Wi… Continue reading Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors→

Earlier this year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said he would be launching a neutral news service with “no other agenda than this: the ultimate arbiter of the truth is the facts of reality.” On Monday, a pilot version of WikiTribune went live… Continue reading Jimmy Wales’ WikiTribune is Already Biased→

An anonymous reader shares a report: At the beginning of June I started to notice that XHamster, the third most popular adult website after Pornhub and XVideos, had one of the most viewed Wikipedia pages. On May 29, XHamster’s Wikipedia page went from … Continue reading The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why→

Andreas Kolbe writes: The Wikimedia Foundation’s (WMF) recently released Form 990 shows that the organisation has developed a practice of handing outgoing managers six-figure severance payments, The Register reports. The foundation, which relies entire… Continue reading Wikimedia Executives Receive Six-figure Golden Handshakes→

Determining how to prevent acts of censorship has long been a priority for the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and thanks to new research from the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, the foundation seems to have found a solution: encryption. From… Continue reading Wikipedia’s Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship→

Jimmy Wales, a founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists with an army of volunteer community contributors. The news site is called Wikitribune. From a report: “We w… Continue reading Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News→

Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that editors at Wikipedia had “voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website,” calling the publication “generally unreliable.” Two months later, not only previous Daily Mail citations on Wikipedia page… Continue reading Wikipedia’s ‘Ban’ of ‘The Daily Mail’ Didn’t Really Happen→