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What you should know about Wikipedia. In short, Wikipedia is a multilingual, openly collaborative online information platform. Like the "wikis" that came before it, the online encyclopedia's ...
The “Talk” page of a Wikipedia entry provides a discussion of changes to the article, and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine can be used to view previous versions. Bridget Retzloff is an assistant ...
WIKIPEDIA users have noticed a new pop-up when using the website. It asks readers to donate money to keep the site going. But why is one of the biggest websites in the world asking for donations? W… ...
The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit ...
Remember when Wikipedia was a joke?. In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because ...
If you’ve been on Wikipedia at any point in the past 24 hours, you probably noticed a dramatic, black-and-yellow banner plastered atop your screen: “DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS,” it begins in all ...
Wikipedia halts its AI summary rollout after human editors raise concerns about credibility. Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries ...
“The wiki community is challenging the Wikimedia Foundation’s right or ability to run fundraising ads on English Wikipedia,” said Lane Rasberry, a long-term Wikipedian and data scientist at ...
Wikipedia doesn’t allow edits on its ‘recession’ page anymore. Wikipedia users are battling over the true definition of a recession Last Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 2:39 p.m. ET First ...