Collaborate Disseminate
“There’s going to be a lot of stupid stuff and lots of bad stuff,” the Wikipedia co-founder said of NFTs. “But there is something quite interesting in all of it as well.” Continue reading Jimmy Wales Is Auctioning His First Wikipedia Edit As an NFT
Andreas Kolbe is a former co-editor-in-chief of The Signpost, an online newspaper for (English-language) Wikipedia that’s been published online since 2005 with contributions from Wikipedia editors. Kolbe has been contributing to it since 2006.
Thelasko writes: The Wikimedia Foundation has revealed efforts to gather personal information on some Chinese Wikipedia editors by entities opposed to their activities on the platform and likely to threaten the targets’ privacy or well-being. The found… Continue reading Wikipedia Bans Seven Chinese Users Amid Concerns of ‘Infiltration, Physical Harm’
The Great Londini has gathered a two million strong army to out TikTok trolls, there’s a bad supply chain vulnerability in many IoT devices, and how did Wikipedia pages end up covered in Nazi swastikas?
All this and much more is discussed in the lat… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #239: TikTok vigilantes, sloppy IoT, and Wikipedia woe
Early Monday morning, the Wikipedia pages for a slew of celebrities, writers, and political figures were replaced by full-page spreads of black and white swastikas on a bright red background. The vandalism was reversed within minutes of being noticed b… Continue reading Thousands of Wikipedia Pages Vandalized With Giant Swastikas
The Record reports:
The Wikimedia Foundation has banned the administrator of the Croatian version of Wikipedia after an investigation revealed that together with other admins, they edited and distorted content on the site with radical right views. Thi… Continue reading Wikimedia Bans Admin of Wikipedia Croatia For Pushing Radical Agenda
After India banned TikTok, Wikipedia’s servers were hammered for requests to look at this specific flower. Continue reading Why Is This Flower on Wikipedia Suddenly Getting 90 Million Hits Per Day?
Wikipedia on Tuesday unveiled a “universal code of conduct” aimed at stemming abuse, misinformation and manipulation on the global online encyclopedia. From a report: The new code was released by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers… Continue reading Wikipedia Unveils ‘Code Of Conduct’ To Stem Misinformation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Just after 1 A.M. on January 12, a prolific Wikiepdian edited the entry for the album Death Breathing. The small edit was the addition of a hyperlink and it was the billionth edit done to the Englis… Continue reading The English Language Wikipedia Just Had Its Billionth Edit
As part of efforts to stop the spread of false information about the coronavirus pandemic, Wikipedia and the World Health Organization announced a collaboration on Thursday: The health agency will grant the online encyclopedia free use of its published… Continue reading WHO To Grant Wikipedia Free Use of Its Published Material To Combat Covid Misinformation