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Articles tagged Wikipedia (56)

Masha BorakSeptember 8, 2022

Doxxed, threatened, and arrested: Russia’s war on Wikipedia editors

Wikipedia, which has more than 1,800 Russian-speaking volunteer editors, has long been a thorn in the Russian government’s side.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 30, 2020

Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives

Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Mike Lee says fact-checking is a form of censorship, and Wikipedia explains how it plans to fight Election Day misinformation.

Christine SchmidtDecember 12, 2019

This is how Report for America ended up funding a community Wikipedia editor (!) at a library (!!)

“Do something different and do it together.”

Joshua BentonOctober 24, 2018

WikiTribune is handing the keys more completely to its users (after laying off its journalists)

“Effectively, what we are doing is inverting completely how people normally think about communities and journalists — the community is not here to merely help the journalists. Rather the journalists will be here to work for the community.”

Spencer TurcotteJuly 4, 2018

Tell me more: The Globe and Mail is slipping a little extra context into its stories (while explaining its editorial thinking along the way)

“As a news organization, it’s perhaps an opportunity for us to be helping people fill those gaps without forcing them to go to Wikipedia or start Googling things, just to try to get the background they crave on a story.”

Facebook is adding a button to let users get more “background information” (aka information from Wikipedia pages) on publishers

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2018

Could students’ media literacy be compared across countries, like math scores?

Plus: YouTube’s sad reliance on Wikipedia, a problem with Pinterest, and how countries around the world are fighting misinformation.

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 7, 2017

Fake news bots are so economical, you can use them over and over

Plus: New Omidyar/Soros money for factchecking, changing your mind but not your vote, and lessons from Wikipedia.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 4, 2017

Jimmy Wales on Wikitribune’s business model and why it might cover not just politics but also dog breeding

“Political news, I think, is of the most interest right now, and so I think that that’s where we’ll focus at first.”

Laura Hazard OwenApril 24, 2017

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news

The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”

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