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An analysis found that about 40% of over 1,000 randomly selected Wikipedia articles contain outdated or incorrect information ...
The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit ...
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 ...
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 ...
First reported by Kotaku, Wikipedia recently introduced a quiz game on its official Android app, called Which Came First? The game has a simple premise, which you could probably g ...
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 ...
Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade AI developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models.