Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shares a report: Wikipedia, the internet’s encyclopedia, is run entirely by volunteers — people who spend large swaths of their personal time making sure the information that hundreds of millions of people access every day stays ac… Continue reading A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs
Slate’s Rachel Withers argues that “tech companies that profit from Wikipedia’s extensive database owe Wikimedia a much greater debt.” Amazon’s Alexa, for example, uses Wikipedia “without credit, contribution, or compensation.” The Google Assistant als… Continue reading Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers?
Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund supporting Wikipedia, the e-commerce giant said this week. From a report: The gift was intended to support Wikipedia and its nonprofit parent Wikimedia, which Amazon relies on for answers… Continue reading Wikimedia Endowment Gets New $1 Million Backing From Amazon
On Sunday haruchai (Slashdot user #17,472) wrote that a 200-year-old museum in Brazil “is burning to the ground and it’s likely the entire collection of some 20 million artifacts will be lost.” Now CNET reports:
The items in the Museu Nacional in Rio m… Continue reading Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: Plenty of prominent scientists have Wikipedia pages. But while checking to see if someone specific has a Wikipedia page is a quick Google search away, figuring out who should be on Wikipedia but… Continue reading AI Can Now Help Write Wikipedia Pages For Overlooked Scientists
The death of passwords is predicted with regular frequency, but we’re still to see it actually happen. It’s possible that it will happen one day but, in the meantime, it would be helpful if popular online services would steer users towards … Continue reading Major websites still fail to steer users towards better passwords
An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement raising awareness for the upcoming vote that (barring some legislative wrangling) would make the copyright directive law. The statement reads, in pa… Continue reading Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU’s Ruinous Copyright Proposals
History’s being documented in real-time, by volunteer editors. Continue reading The Debate About American ‘Concentration Camps’ Is Unfolding on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has its own internal “Supreme Court,” which adjudicates disputes, takes appeals, and even issues injunctions [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]. The cases it hears are as petty as you’d expect. Fascinating story by WSJ: Wikipedia, the… Continue reading Last Stop For Wikipedia’s Feuding Editors — Online High Court
An academic paper on global climate zones written by three Australians more than a decade ago has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, having being referenced more than 2.8m times. From a report: The authors of the paper, who are still good f… Continue reading Decade Old Academic Paper on Global Climate Zones Named the Most Cited Source on Wikipedia