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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling an NFT of its first edit from that reads 'hello world!'
Christie's is auctioning the NFT as well as the strawberry-colored Apple computer that Wales used t…
Natasha Dailey
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India may reportedly block Wikipedia if the site doesn't delete the map showing Aksai Chin as a part of China
After Twitter, the Indian government has now trained its guns on Wikipedia for how its territory is…
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he secretly lived in Argentina for a month after reading 'The 4-Hour Workweek' by Tim Ferriss
The Wikipedia founder said he was inspired by "The 4-Hour Workweek" to reconsider the ratrace.
Stephen Jones
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Pictures of Swastikas temporarily replaced Wikipedia pages for Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck
The changes were only in place for a few minutes before the Wikipedia pages reverted to their usual…
Grace Dean,Allana Akhtar
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The author of 'Station Eleven' couldn't update her Wikipedia page to reflect her divorce without citing an article where she confirmed it, so she got a magazine to interview her
Novelist Emily St. John Mandel said the only way she could update her Wikipedia page to say she's d…
Britney Nguyen
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Challenging the massive gender imbalance on Wikipedia. Hundreds of dedicated volunteers are defying the sexists to write women back into history.
Only 18% of Wikipedia's biographies are about women. Volunteers from the 'Women in Red' project are…
Joshua Zitser
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Apple, Amazon, and Google don't pay to integrate Wikipedia articles into their search products. The non-profit now hopes to use contracts with Big Tech to help fund 'knowledge equity' around the world.
Enterprise contracts would transform Wikipedia's relationship with corporations and level the playi…
Allana Akhtar
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This is the one internet law Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales would radically rewrite
"Google in the past had a lot of damage to their brand from cooperating in China, a lot of damage t…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix
Among the country's top most-visited sites were Google, Facebook, and YouTube. However, the world's…
Ruqayyah Moynihan
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Reddit, Wikipedia, and PornHub are strong-arming users into protesting against laws that could change the face of the internet in Europe
Wikipedia's German, Czech, Slovakian, and Danish pages are all denying users access for 24 hours. I…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Loser.com is now redirecting visitors to Vladimir Putin's Wikipedia page, the website's latest target in a list that includes Donald Trump and Kanye West
Putin is the latest subject of Loser.com owner Brian Connelly, who has used the site in recent year…
Yelena Dzhanova
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What is Wikipedia? Here's what you should know about the crowd-sourced and openly edited online encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia featuring openly editable content created and sourced by us…
Jennifer Still
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How to create a Wikipedia page for a person, place, company, or any notable topic
To help you create a Wikipedia page, the website provides a helpful widget to walk users through th…
Jennifer Still
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A former clerk for a SCOTUS frontrunner edited Wikipedia pages to make her look better and her rivals worse, report says
Matteo Godi, who clerked for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, edited the Wikipedia pages two days after…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: There's going to be an 'enormous backlash' against Donald Trump's lies
After launching in October last year, the website recently underwent a redesign and is populated by…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter,David…
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Two of the world’s leading crowd-sourced platforms are teaming up to fight fake news
These "information cues" will be displayed alongside content that has been flagged to be conspir…
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Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
"One of my biggest concerns with the mandated upload filters is it would just be entrenching the po…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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For years, an American has been writing articles in a stereotypical Scottish accent on the official Scots Wikipedia, and some people online are not happy
TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short danc…
Katie Canales
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After Wikipedia editors battled over citing Fox News as a source, administrators said it should be 'used with caution' for science and politics
Following a discussion between editors about whether Fox News was a reliable source, Wikipedia admi…
Palmer Haasch
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Former students say that Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak's $13,200 coding bootcamp is 'broken' and sometimes links to Wikipedia
Woz U launched last fall to fanfare. At one point, the plan for the company was to set up 30 physic…