Wikimedia Foundation has asked editing services firm Wiki-PR to cease and desist editing the Wikipedia site for allegedly authoring articles for money and passing them off as written by unbiased ...
Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. Ramjohn is an ecologist by training, and for more than a decade, he ...
As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public ...
WASHINGTON — This is what passes for an extreme makeover in Washington: A summer intern for seven-term Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) altered the congressman’s profile on the Wikipedia website to ...
Portland Communications, founded by Keir Starmer’s communications chief, linked to so-called black hat edits ...
Federal employees make great Wikipedia editors, according to Wikimedia DC -- the online encyclopedia’s Washington-area outreach chapter. “Government staff are experts in areas of public interest, ...
Wikipedia is cracking down on Wiki-PR, a company that gets paid to write and edit posts on the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. “Sockpuppetry” — or using false user accounts to post and edit on ...
When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration. The article focused on polygamy, ...
To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that backs Wikipedia — is releasing brief clips that highlight eight ...
Following several years of declining participation among its contributors, Wikipedia is rolling out a new, easier-to-use visual-editing interface designed to make the site more welcoming to would-be ...
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