Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been ...
After the Grnrchst report, Wikipedia's global stewards removed 235 articles on Woodard from Wikipedia instances with few users or administrators. Larger Wikipedias were free to make their own ...
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Anyone can sign up for a Wikipedia account and create a unique article or contribute to an existing one. Wikipedia has notability and core content requirements it considers before allowing a page to ...
I get a kick out of social scientists who embed themselves among street gangs, crack dealers, or female impersonators, in the name of decoding weird subcultures. Business professors rarely do anything ...
A New York congressman had his personal account blocked on Wikipedia after making too many edits to his own page. The Daily Beast reports that Congressman Mike Lawler, who represents the state’s 17th ...
If you're looking for a political scandal via anonymous Wikipedia edits, this account might not be for you. It's might seem like a House of Cards-like move, but if you've ever been curious about just ...
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site’s most bizarre pages. By Anna P. Kambhampaty Did you know that there’s a Swiss political party dedicated to opposing ...
Vox Day thinks that Wikipedia is the worst. But the things that bug him aren’t the typical complaints you’ll hear about the crowd-sourced encyclopedia—that it’s plagued by trolls, say, or that its ...
As Wikipedia becomes more powerful, it’s facing a new vandalism problem. In recent weeks, the user-moderated online encyclopedia has experienced a string of rogue edits, most infamously when a user ...
No one in the NFL has had their Wikipedia page edited more since Dec. 11, 2022, than 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. Not Aaron Rodgers. Not Lamar Jackson. Not Patrick Mahomes. Not CJ Stroud. Not the ...