Wikipedia:Press coverage 2024

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2024, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

January

• Long, Katherine; Newsham, Jack; Parakul, Narimes (January 6, 2024). "Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution". Business Insider. Retrieved January 8, 2024. It's not surprising that Oxman wouldn't credit Wikipedia in her doctoral dissertation: While Wikipedia is generally accurate, anyone can edit it, so teachers regularly tell their students that they should not cite the website as an authority.
• Hamilton, Fiona (January 7, 2024). "How Wikipedia is being changed to downgrade Iranian human rights atrocities". The Times. Retrieved January 8, 2024. In one case, key details were removed about the Iranian regime's mass executions. The fact that current senior officials in the regime were involved in the 1988 death commissions, in which thousands of political prisoners were killed, was also deleted.
• Rissman, Kelly (January 7, 2024). "Bill Ackman says lifting from Wikipedia is not plagiarism after his wife's work questioned". The Independent. Retrieved January 8, 2024. Is this plagiarism?" Mr Ackman asked on X. "Let's assume that in writing her dissertation Neri used Wikipedia as a dictionary for these terms and it is deemed to be plagiarism, does it any way affect the quality and originality of the research in her dissertation? I think that's worth an important discussion among the experts.
• Oeberst, Aileen; Ridderbecks, Till (January 7, 2024). "How article category in Wikipedia determines the heterogeneity of its editors". Nature. Retrieved January 8, 2024. Collaboration is not a safeguard of quality per se, however. Rather, the quality of Wikipedia articles rises with the number of editors per article as well as a greater diversity among them. Here, we address a not yet documented potential threat to those preconditions: self-selection of Wikipedia editors to articles.
• Kessel, Zach (January 8, 2024). "Wikipedia's Arabic-Language Site Spreads Anti-Israel Propaganda". National Review. Retrieved January 9, 2024. At the top of each page on the Arabic-language version of Wikipedia is a black banner showing the Wikipedia globe logo enveloped with a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh. Next to the icon is a note accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. This banner appears on every page on Arabic Wikipedia, even today's featured article, one for the prehistoric reptile deinosuchus.
• Hulkover, Ilan (January 8, 2024). "Arabic Wikipedia Pushes Pro-Hamas Propaganda On Every Single Page". The Daily Caller. Retrieved January 9, 2024. These rather blatant pro-Palestinian pages appear to stand in contrast to Wikipedia's own declared standards of covering events from a "neutral point of view," which emphasizes "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views" on a topic.
• "Russian version of Wikipedia to launch Monday, reports say". Reuters. January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024. Russia has said it was not yet planning to block Wikipedia - one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian courts, however, have handed the online encyclopaedia a series of fines over Ukraine-related content since.
• Freshwater, Paige (January 16, 2024). "People are only just realising what the Wiki in Wikipedia actually means". Daily Mirror. Retrieved January 16, 2024. It appears the 'wiki' part of its name lives up to its promise, as users usually track down the information they're searching for within a few clicks, despite the website having more than 62million articles in more than 300 languages.
• "Nearly 1,700 articles added to Azerbaijani language section of Wikipedia in past year". Azerbaijan State News Agency. January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024. Furthermore, the "Electronic Academy" department`s direct involvement and initiative resulted in the generation of 471 articles on Wikipedia, including 258 in Azerbaijani, 69 in English, 72 in Turkish, 53 in Russian, 8 in Persian, 10 in German, and 1 in Uzbek.
• Mahoutchi, Farid (January 18, 2024). "In the War for Narratives Iran's Regime Takes to Wikipedia". National Council of Resistance of Iran. Retrieved January 18, 2024. The scenario of Iran's regime utilizing Wikipedia as a battleground for narrative control highlights the necessity for individuals to approach online information, particularly on sensitive topics like Iranian politics, with a discerning mindset. Navigating the vast sea of data demands meticulous fact-checking, logical analysis, and an appreciation of historical contexts.
• Harrison, Stephen (January 19, 2024). "Yes, Copying From Wikipedia Is Plagiarism". Slate. Retrieved January 20, 2024. Within the academy, it's considered a bit lazy for a scholar to cite any encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, which are considered to be indirect, tertiary sources rather than direct sources of information. "An academic probably shouldn't be citing Encyclopedia Britannica either," said Blum.
• Rafizadeh, Majid (January 15, 2024). "The Iranian Regime Is Using Deceptive Tactics to Spread Disinformation". Townhall. Retrieved January 22, 2024. The problem extends beyond Iranian politics. Similar occurrences involving China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia infiltrating Wikipedia have been documented.
• Goldberg, Yitz (January 17, 2024). "Factual encyclopedia or Hamas propaganda? Wikipedia's shocking anti-Israel bias". Israel National News. Retrieved January 22, 2024. The articles, some of which have versions in English as well, are written in a manner that in no way can be considered unbiased, with some presenting unconfirmed reports or even blatant lies as facts.
• Cohen, Noam (January 24, 2024). "Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down, Putting Local Site in Peril". Bloomberg. Retrieved January 24, 2024. A government campaign to replace Wikipedia Russia with a more pliant alternative seems near completion.
• "Russia invests in a homemade Wikipedia, in the hope of blocking the original". The Bell. January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024. The current Russian-language Wikipedia has about 12,000 regular editors, and many of them live outside of Russia and tend towards having opposition views. Russia's register of banned sites already includes more than 120 Wikipedia articles, mostly to do with the war in Ukraine. If Ruwiki or another pro-Kremlin project can prove its worth, we can expect the original Wikipedia to be banned.

February

• Smith, Emily (February 1, 2024). "These are the UK unis everyone is obsessing over right now, based on Wikipedia views". The Tab. Retrieved February 9, 2024. So these are officially the UK unis that are the most popular, according to Wikipedia views:

• Kuznetsova, Alisa (February 6, 2024). "Is Wikipedia The Last Hope For Free Speech In Putin's Russia?". Worldcrunch. Retrieved February 9, 2024. But the challenge lies in the constant upkeep of Wikipedia articles. They require regular updates, clarifications, and error corrections. In Russian Wikipedia alone, around 700,000 corrections are made to 330,000 articles each month, with approximately 7,000 new articles created monthly. It's a substantial undertaking.

• Mahmoudi, Hassan (February 12, 2024). "The Iranian regime is using Wikipedia to spread disinformation". American Thinker. Retrieved February 13, 2024. Many people in Iran and abroad read Persian Wikipedia, and many from different countries refer to English Wikipedia. Few understand how much of what they read, all of which has the illusion of verifiability, is biased or fake.

• Allen, Melyssa (February 13, 2024). "Students Seek to Correct Gender Bias on Wikipedia". Meredith College. Retrieved February 15, 2024. Dr. Butz assigned students to contribute to "Wiki Project Women Scientists" or "Underrepresentation of Science and Women in Africa", two projects that aim to correct the gender bias on Wikipedia. The requirement was to write an article about a woman scientist who does not have a Wiki page.

• Hwang, Scott (February 14, 2024). "Hwang: Wikipedia is what the internet promised to be". The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved February 15, 2024. I'm not sure there is an answer to life, the universe and everything. But when someone figures it out, I'll know where to find it — and you can bet there'll be footnotes.

• Matchett, Conor (February 14, 2024). "WIKI TWEAKS Scottish parliament computers used numerous times to edit MSPs' Wikipedia pages – to make them more positive". The Irish Sun. Retrieved February 15, 2024. It is impossible to know whether these were done by MSPs or their staff, which could breach a Wikipedia ban on people or employees editing pages about themselves.

• "Russian presidential aide suggests copying Wikipedia in its entirety for Russian analog". Meduza. February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024. According to the presidential aide, 99% of the articles on Wikipedia are "absolutely neutral and even interesting," hence they could be used for a Russian analog. ... Medinsky called the remaining 1% of articles "enemy slander," which are "severely moderated." "You'll never get a word of truth in there," he added.

• Mendelle, Hava (February 17, 2024). "Wikipedia: how safe is crowdsourcing the truth?". Spectator Australia. Retrieved February 17, 2024. The problem here is that with millions of articles on any given topic, the majority of people are likely to read smaller articles as fact regardless of any increased bias or lack of impartiality.
• "Yoruba Wikipedia hits 25 million views in 2023". The Nation. February 17, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024. The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has also collaborated with Mr. Macaroni, a multi-award-winning Nigerian comic skit maker and actor with millions of followers on various social media, to produce a short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language on Wikipedia. The skit was viewed by millions of Nigerians. These efforts, among others, have helped to increase the traffic and readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia.
• "Retired Czechs refine Wikipedia as hobby". Agence France-Presse. February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 20, 2024. "I'm happy when I can take a look at a piece of history and find out someone has praised the entry or even added something. That's what makes me happy," Kadnerova said. "A friend of mine once told me I wasn't doing enough for mankind. So I finally am," she added.
• "The Top 10 Most Viewed K-pop Artists on Wikipedia from 2015 to 2024". Allkpop. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. From 2015 to February 2024, BTS has dominated at #1 with 90.5 million views as the most-viewed group and K-pop act overall, while Kim Taehyung, aka V, ranks as the most popular solo artist at #3 with 42.5 million views.
• Ackermann, Rebecca (February 26, 2024). "Wikimedia's CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved March 6, 2024. While Wikipedia's traffic didn't shift significantly during ChatGPT's meteoric rise, the site has seen a general decline in visitors over the last decade as a result of Google's ongoing search updates and generational changes in online behavior.
• "Wikipedia's volunteer editors to have access to all Taylor & Francis journals". The Bookseller. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Martin Wilson, head of content at T&F, added: "Wikipedia is the first port of call for so many of us when we want to find out about a new topic and Wikipedia editors do an amazing job helping to keep it as accurate and up to date as possible. We hope this extended partnership with The Wikipedia Library will make Taylor & Francis Online an even more useful resource for supporting that work."
• Harrison Dupré, Maggie (February 29, 2024). "Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal". Futurism. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Wikipedia's source guidelines now provide this striking table that sums up the site's view on CNET: that it was reliable until it was acquired by Red Ventures, unreliable for the period it was caught using AI, and that since 2020 it's suffered a "deterioration in editorial standards."
• Edwards, Benj (February 29, 2024). "AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET's reliability rating". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 6, 2024. As of this writing, Wikipedia's Perennial Sources list currently features three entries for CNET broken into three time periods:

March

• Germain, Thomas (March 1, 2024). "Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 25, 2024. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean you can write whatever you want. For one, a subject has to be notable. Your grandma's "famous" cookie recipe can't have an article unless it's actually famous. The site isn't a place for personal opinions, either.
• Harper, Christopher (March 2, 2024). "AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Considering that CNET has been in the business since 1994 and maintained a top-tier reputation on Wikipedia up until late 2020, this change came after lots of debate between Wikipedia's editors and has drawn the attention of many in the media, including some CNET staff members.
• Kraiem, Leon (March 4, 2024). "Arabic Wikipedia features site-wide "No to genocide in Gaza" banner". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 6, 2024. The banner, which is featured on every Arabic-language Wikipedia page, reads: "In solidarity with the right of the Palestinian people, no to genocide in Gaza, no to killing civilians. No to targeting hospitals and schools. No to deception and double standards. Stop the war and spread a just and comprehensive peace."
• Vinter, Robyn (March 5, 2024). "UK academic's Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world". The Guardian. Retrieved March 5, 2024. A UK academic who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world is calling for more women to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia.
• "Review highlights gender gap on Wikipedia". Phys.org. March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. The article provides a detailed view of the gender gap on Wikipedia and it stresses the importance of addressing this problem to guarantee a more equal and diverse platform.
• Ruff, Rhiannon (March 6, 2024). "Why Wikipedia can be a PR problem for political campaigns". PR Daily. Retrieved March 6, 2024. A recent paper from Oxford Internet Institution researchers specified that while incumbents' Wikipedia pages are more likely to receive higher traffic volumes during an election, pageviews for challengers are significantly more predictive of success — especially for candidates that voters perceive as "viable."
• Dunn, Riley (March 7, 2024). "Stanley Museum Wikipedia Edit-a-thon boosts diverse voices during Women's History Month". The Daily Iowan. Retrieved March 8, 2024. In response to the historic underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia articles, the Stanley Museum of Art will host a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon throughout March.
• "Int'l Women's Day: Wikimedia launches 'Wikipedia needs more women' campaign". Business Standard. March 8, 2024. Retrieved March 8, 2024. Since 2021, India has seen a steady growth rate of 13 per cent in content related to women on Wikimedia projects because of the efforts of individual contributors as well as collective initiatives.
• Alikhan, Anusha (March 8, 2024). "Wikipedia needs more women. And India can help bridge this gender gap". ThePrint. Retrieved March 8, 2024. As women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge, the issue is further reflected on Wikipedia, where women remain significantly underrepresented.
• Agbonkhese, Josephine (March 8, 2024). "IWD: Wikimedia Foundation launches 'Wikipedia Needs More Women' campaign". Vanguard (Nigeria). Retrieved March 10, 2024. "We, therefore, urge everyone to join us and play their parts in ensuring that we begin to see more women in the world's largest encyclopedia," added Olushola Olaniyan, President, Wikimedia Nigeria User Group.
• Thomas-Odia, Ijeoma (March 8, 2024). "IWD: Wikimedia Foundation seeks to improve gender equity on Wikipedia". The Guardian (Nigeria). Retrieved March 10, 2024. Wikipedia depends on the availability of existing published sources to verify the facts in its articles. But in many places around the world, women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge.
• "The Guardian view on Wikipedia's female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history". The Guardian. March 8, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024. The dictionary definition of heroism does not usually extend to people who work away anonymously, and for no money, for the reputational benefit of others. But this is what growing numbers of largely female researchers have been doing, in an attempt to rebalance the historical record on Wikipedia in favour of women.
• Owino, Winfrey (March 10, 2024). "Wikipedia launches campaign for female inclusivity across Africa". The Standard (Kenya). Retrieved March 10, 2024. "It is inspiring to see the progress made across the African continent to improve gender equity on Wikipedia and beyond," said Masana Mulaudzi, Senior Manager of Campaign Organizing at the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Tual, Morgane (March 12, 2024). "Wikipedia's French-speaking community is torn apart over 'deadnaming' trans people". Le Monde. Retrieved March 15, 2024. The source of the conflict lies in a debate over the "deadnames" – or morinoms in French – of trans people. Should these names that are no longer in use, such as birthnames, be mentioned on Wikipedia? If so, in which cases and under what conditions?
• Saeed, Aazma (March 13, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Navigate Political Divides In Covering Pakistan's General Elections". The Friday Times. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Who is the party leader? This was one of the most confusing questions to answer for contributors to Wikipedia's page.
• Adeeso, Adejumoke (March 14, 2024). "Efforts To Improve Gender Equity On Wikipedia Commended". Leadership. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Wikimedia Nigeria is organising the WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge, which is open to the public, to create new articles for notable women and improve existing articles about women on Wikipedia, with a focus on English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Tyap Wikipedias.
• Costigan, Steffanie (March 14, 2024). "Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' aims to correct Blackfoot misrepresentation". Lethbridge Herald. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Romany Craig, professional librarian at the university, shared how she got the idea to hold this workshop by reading about the Wikipedia edit-a-thon which involved individuals coming together to edit around a theme making information more accurate.
• Jansen, Francois (March 14, 2024). "Wikipedia says it needs 'more women' on its website". The South African. Retrieved March 16, 2024. All it takes is a free account. You can also contribute anonymously. Write about anything, including important women of Southern Africa and their world contributions.
• Aharoni Lir, Shlomit (March 14, 2024). "The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia" (PDF). World Jewish Congress. Retrieved March 19, 2024. The articles biased against Israel are mostly closed to editing, and it is impossible for an individual to change them without having made 500 edits, which leaves many Israelis unable to edit articles about which they have great knowledge.
• "Wikipedia English has anti-Israel bias after October 7, World Jewish Congress report says". The Jerusalem Post. March 20, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024. The WJC report recommended corrective measures to re-establish the neutrality of Wikipedia, authored by Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir, Ph.D., senior fellow researcher at Bar Ilan University and the University of Haifa.
• Swindle, David (March 20, 2024). "WJC publishes research revealing the roots of Wikipedia's anti-Israel bias". Jewish News Syndicate. Retrieved March 21, 2024. Types of bias the report identifies include delegitimizing terminology, lack of context, omission of significant details, one-sided sources, emphasizing negative examples and linking to pages like "genocide."
• Mendelle, Hava (March 23, 2024). "The World Jewish Congress investigates Wikipedia". Spectator Australia. Retrieved March 23, 2024. The report claims that English Wikipedia has an anti-Israel bias that spreads disinformation and perpetuates negative stereotypes of Jews and Israelis.
• Lee, Lloyd (March 24, 2024). "For $60, you could 'poison' the data AI chatbots rely on to give good answers, researchers say". Business Insider. Retrieved March 25, 2024. "By the internet's standards, it's a very high-quality source of text and sources of facts about the world," he said, adding that it's the reason researchers give "extra weight" to data from Wikipedia when training language models even though the website makes up a small part of the internet.
• Kamila, Raviprasad (March 29, 2024). "Tulu Wikipedia more than doubles in size in seven years". The Hindu. Retrieved March 29, 2024. "Recently a Tulu article of mine related to Karnataka coastal belt's Siri Aradhane (Siri cult of worship) went to English from where it travelled to the German language," Badikana pointed out. He has written 113 articles for both Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia from December 1, 2023 alone in addition to a number of articles written earlier.

April

• Shanks, Adam (April 4, 2024). "Wikipedia is San Francisco's newest political battlefield". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved April 4, 2024. Wikipedia catalogs the edits made to every page. Supervisors running for election, including Connie Chan, Preston and Aaron Peskin — who is contemplating a run for mayor — have seen an uptick in the number and scale of edits made to their pages in recent months.
• "Wikipedia Needs More Women: Bridging The Gender Gap In Knowledge Representation". Africa.com. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2024. Wikimedia communities in Africa, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, are some of the fastest-growing around the world. Although people living in Africa remain underrepresented among Wikimedia contributors, a 2020 report found that new contributors to Wikimedia projects are three times more likely to come from Africa than other regions.
• Harris, Airika (April 8, 2024). "Study: Without teacher guidance, Estonian students place blind faith in Wikipedia". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. Retrieved April 9, 2024. "We learned that a lot depends on the teacher. If teachers trust Wikipedia and tell students about its dangers and shortcomings, it reflects in the students' activities," Remmik pointed out.
• Torborg, Hailey (April 9, 2024). "ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia". Arizona State University. Retrieved April 15, 2024. "If you know how to navigate the site, Wikipedia is a uniquely transparent knowledge-sharing platform," Perkins said. "So students get to see how the articles are developed in ways that are typically black-boxed in academia's peer-review process or in what happens in the office of news media organizations.
• Borisenko, Lyubov (April 11, 2024). "Party line editing". Novaya Gazeta. Retrieved April 15, 2024. Most often, the Ruwiki pages are substantially shorter than their Wikipedia counterparts; the sexual and plagiarism scandals of Russian representatives, for instance, are often excised.
• Vasilj, Julia (April 14, 2024). "Georgetown hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon, harnessing anger into action". The Georgetown Voice. Retrieved April 15, 2024. By the end of the event, the MDI ultimately championed feminist rage as a tool for activism and achieved its goal of closing gender gaps by recruiting 25 new Wikipedia editors.
• "Russian Billionaires Try to Hide Ties with Kremlin by Editing Wikipedia Pages". Kyiv Post. April 15, 2024. Retrieved April 15, 2024. The article quotes an expert on Wikipedia who says some of them may have never wanted an entry to be made but someone did and now they have to try to get control of the message.
• Benjakob, Omer (April 21, 2024). "Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request". Haaretz. Retrieved April 21, 2024. But as is the case in Israeli politics, nothing is that simple in Wikipedia's politics, certainly not in Hebrew Wikipedia when it comes to Netanyahu.
• Thum, Van (April 21, 2024). "Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon honors Black artists". Pipe Dream. Retrieved April 22, 2024. Multiple on-campus organizations and undergraduate students put their heads together to expand accessible knowledge on Wikipedia of six underrepresented Black artists last Friday.
• Mendelle, Hava (April 22, 2024). "JK Rowling puts Wikipedia's neutrality to the test". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved April 22, 2024. Much of the free information available on Wikipedia has succumbed to such sensationalist news and recentism. More and more editors take on particular causes that they proudly display on their user pages using current events and sources to promote that cause.
• Orlowski, Andrew (April 22, 2024). "How Wikipedia became Wokepedia". Spiked. Retrieved April 23, 2024. Although Wikipedia may have gone woke, it is probably not in the pocket of intelligence agencies. Still, it would be naive to imagine that the bosses at the Wikimedia Foundation aren't at least trying to use Wikipedia as a tool to propagate their social-justice agenda.
• Lapenkova, Maria (April 29, 2024). "Ryssland förbereder nedstängning av Wikipedia – så ser den ryska kopian ut" [Russia prepares to shut down Wikipedia - this is what the Russian copy looks like]. Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved April 30, 2024. Last week, the Minister of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev, said that Russia does not yet intend to block Wikipedia. But that the calls for a shutdown have increased, while a lot of investment is being made in the Russian copy. - Ruwiki filters Wikipedia articles from lies. It is important that we create our own resources where our citizens can obtain objective information cleaned of propaganda, says Gorelkin on Telegram.

May

• Madhavendra Pratap, Rishabh (May 7, 2024). "Exclusive: Wikipedia Volunteers Mobilise Against Misinformation". Times Now. Retrieved May 7, 2024. Beyond its internal mechanisms, Wikipedia fosters a culture of fact-checking among its volunteer editors and patrollers.
• Wolens, Joshua (May 8, 2024). "Russia's homegrown Wikipedia promises a 'different direction' from its inspiration: One where Yevgeny Prigozhin just happened to explode in mid-air". PC Gamer. Retrieved May 8, 2024. For now, Ruwiki exists alongside Wikipedia's Russian-language version, which continues after Wikimedia RU's closure, although it's anyone's guess as to how long that will stay true. Wikipedia is a regular target of attacks by the Russian government, and although the state said it had no plans to block the website in April last year, that was before Ruwiki got off the ground.
• Sargent, Carole (May 8, 2024). "Why notable Catholic sisters need Wikipedia pages, and how to create them". Global Sisters Report. Retrieved May 8, 2024. I am a professional writer and editor, and so it may seem odd that I now spend time putting Catholic sisters' biographies on Wikipedia instead of, say, into standard Oxford University Press reference works, but I do it because of the impact.
• Wood Jr., John (May 8, 2024). "Conservatives trashed NPR's new CEO for being 'woke.' But the truth is far more complex". USA Today. Retrieved May 9, 2024. But should we not seek the truth? Yes, of course. Nonetheless, as Maher said, like the volunteer writers of Wikipedia, we also must focus on "the best of what we can know right now." That is a statement of intellectual humility, not of relativism. Complex topics and problems do not lend themselves to easy assessments of truth in real time. Through broad sourcing, the Wikipedia model in theory moves us to closer approximations of what is true.
• Brennen, Ed (May 10, 2024). "Students Sharpen Research Skills at Wikipedia Edit-a-thon". University of Massachusetts Lowell. Retrieved May 11, 2024. And with generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT scraping Wikipedia for copyright-free material to use as grist for their responses, Sancinito says it is more important than ever that the site be trustworthy. "I would rather AI be scraping Wikipedia than someone's conspiracy theory, but it means we have to make sure what we're putting out there is reliable," she says.
• Chapekis, Athena; Bestvater, Samuel; Remy, Emma; Rivero, Gonzalo (May 17, 2024). "When Online Content Disappears". Pew Research Center. Retrieved May 19, 2024. The analysis indicates that 11% of all references linked on Wikipedia are no longer accessible. On about 2% of source pages containing reference links, every link on the page was broken or otherwise inaccessible, while another 53% of pages contained at least one broken link.
• Allfrey, Fran; Moore, Lucy; Nevell, Richard (May 21, 2024). "Forging the medieval on Wikipedia". postmedieval. Retrieved June 13, 2024. This article argues for the significance of Wikipedia for medievalists in terms of how it may shape research, pedagogy, and public-facing work.
• Bandler, Aaron (May 23, 2024). "Seven Tactics Wikipedia Editors Used to Spread Anti-Israel Bias Since Oct. 7". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved May 24, 2024. I have been investigating Wikipedia for more than three years, having talked to many Wikipedians about how the site's mechanisms have created a self-sustaining system of left-wing and anti-Israel bias.
• Keeler, Kyle (May 24, 2024). "Wikipedia's Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world's largest encyclopedia". Settler Colonial Studies. Retrieved May 26, 2024. In its current form, Wikipedia is hostile to Indigenous peoples. Its long-time editors, administrators, policies, and structure, refuse, are not equipped, or are not designed to make the adjustments necessary for meaningful change to occur.
• Sibal, Sidhant (May 25, 2024). "Amid elections, Wikipedia relies on Indian AI for regional content translation". WION. Retrieved June 3, 2024. One notable success story is the Santali language Wikipedia, which has experienced an increase in content creation since the deployment of AI tools, leading to an overall increase of 30% in the number of articles.

June

• Byron, Avior (June 2, 2024). "Truth held hostage: Language differences in Wikipedia's 'Israel-Hamas War' page - opinion". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved June 3, 2024. Wikipedia acknowledges the vast differences between different-language editions of the same subject, stemming from independent editing communities, the availability and use of sources in different languages, cultural and political contexts influencing perspectives, and others.
• Harrison, Stephen (June 4, 2024). "The Most Heated Debate on Trump's Felony Conviction Is Happening on … Wikipedia?". Slate. Retrieved June 4, 2024. As it turns out, it's not always clear how to apply Wikipedia's traditional rules to as polarizing a figure as Trump.
• Realfonzo, Ugo (June 4, 2024). "How Wikipedia fights against fake news". The Brussels Times. Retrieved June 11, 2024. While Europe agonises over a possible rise of authoritarianism and greater control of the online information space, organisations like Wikimedia are ambassadors to true internet freedom, maintaining access to information via the people's encyclopaedia.
• Halushak, Maureen (June 11, 2024). "This Canadian Non-Profit Is Helping To Fix Wikipedia's Diversity Gap". Chatelaine. Retrieved June 12, 2024. Note: Content created on Wikipedia needs to be supported by reliable published sources, such as newspaper articles. This can create another barrier for women and racialized people, whose stories can be overlooked by mainstream media.
• Kassam, Ashifa (June 12, 2024). "'We're writing history': Spanish women tackle Wikipedia's gender gap". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2024. She's often watched in awe as her sentences ricochet across the internet. "Over the years I've seen lines that I wrote used all over the place, repeated over and over in articles," she said. "The influence you have is tremendous."
• Shamim, Sarah; Oxford, Dwayne (June 14, 2024). "Wikipedia war: Fierce row erupts over Israel's deadly Nuseirat assault". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved June 14, 2024. While most Wikipedia pages are open to any registered user to edit, an exception is made for certain articles that are locked or "protected" to prevent "disruptive editing on controversial pages", the Wikipedia homepage explains. When pages are locked, the new settings limit and slow down the number of edits made to the pages.
• "Wikipedia article on Israeli army's Nuseirat massacre in Gaza sparks edit war, restrictions". The New Arab. June 15, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2024. Edit wars have been occurring on Wikipedia for a number of years and for a variety of articles. A 2011 PCWorld article detailed that edit wars had been waged on articles on Nikola Tesla, Star Wars and Chinese Basketball player Yao Ming.
• Elia-Shalev, Asaf (June 18, 2024). "ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved June 19, 2024. Moreover, in a near consensus, dozens of Wikipedia editors involved in the discussion said they believe the ADL should not be cited for factual information on antisemitism as well because it acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.
• "Wikipedia declares Anti-Defamation League 'unreliable' on Israel, antisemitism: Report". Middle East Eye. June 18, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2024. The editors also cited controversial statements by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who has claimed student protests were proxies of Iran and compared the Palestinian keffiyeh head scarf to the swastika.
• Marcus, Josh (June 19, 2024). "Why Wikipedia just labeled a top Jewish civil rights organization 'unreliable' on the Israel-Palestine crisis". The Independent. Retrieved June 19, 2024. As The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports, debate about the ADL has been ongoing for months among the dedicated team of volunteer editors whose work is viewed in more than 15bn monthly visits from web users around the world.
• "Wikipedia declares ADL 'unreliable' on Israel-Palestine conflict, antisemitism". i24NEWS. June 19, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2024. After formal declaration, the decisions will add the ADL to the list banned and partially banned sources.
• "Wikipedia labels prominent Israeli civil rights organization 'unreliable' on Israel-Palestine crisis, antisemitism". Arab News. June 19, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2024. In a statement, the ADL said the Wikipedia decision was part of a "campaign to delegitimize the ADL."
• Goldman, David (June 19, 2024). "Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source". CNN. Retrieved June 19, 2024. If Wikipedia's editors are distancing themselves from the ADL, that could suggest media, academic and partnering advocacy organizations will think twice about how they approach ADL data in their own efforts to inform their audiences on antisemitism.
• Eshman, Rob (June 19, 2024). "Wikipedia called the ADL 'unreliable.' It's a wake-up call the civil rights organization badly needs". The Forward. Retrieved June 20, 2024. The real problem that the Wikipedia designation points out with the ADL is that there is an inherent contradiction between doing serious research and engaging in advocacy.
• Reinl, James (June 21, 2024). "'Trump bad, Obama good' - Wikipedia's bias REVEALED, and how it affects you". The Daily Mail. Retrieved June 27, 2024. A study from the Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning think tank, says it has uncovered 'evidence of political bias embedded in Wikipedia articles.'
• Ginzburg, Daniela (June 21, 2024). "Wikipedia deems ADL 'unreliable' due to Israel advocacy". Jewish News Syndicate. Retrieved June 23, 2024. Wikipedia editors' decision to categorize the ADL as "a source that is generally unreliable" means that from now on, it will not be possible to quote data or statements from the ADL in articles posted on Wikipedia, except in exceptional cases.
• Bandler, Aaron (June 21, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Label ADL Only Reliable for Antisemitism When "Israel and Zionism Are Not Concerned"". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved June 23, 2024. "This discussion contained a range of perspectives, ranging from those who enthusiastically defended the ADL in all contexts, to those who viewed it as categorically unreliable," the three Wikipedians who closed the discussion wrote. "Most editors, however, favored some middle ground between those extremes."
• Collins, Michael (June 21, 2024). "Anti-hate group ADL slams Wikipedia after site labels it 'unreliable' source on conflict". USA Today. Retrieved June 24, 2024. A leading anti-hate organization that tracks reports of antisemitism is fighting back after a group of anonymous volunteer editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia declared the group 'generally unreliable' to provide information on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. … Greenblatt accused Wikipedia of a lack of transparency about its review process and noted that the ADL was never formally notified of the editors' decision. The first ADL heard about the ruling was when it was contacted by news organizations, he said.
• Youssef, Aya (June 23, 2024). "Palestine's battle against Zionist editing on Wikipedia". Al Mayadeen. Retrieved June 23, 2024. Despite these challenges, there are ongoing efforts to counteract bias and ensure a more fair representation of the Palestinian narrative on Wikipedia. The hidden narrative battles for Palestine on Wikipedia highlight the broader struggle for control over historical and contemporary narratives. In the ongoing battle for truth and justice, every edit counts.
• Eshman, Rob (June 24, 2024). "'Does anybody question the NAACP?': The ADL head thinks Wikipedia is biased. Is he right?". The Forward. Retrieved June 25, 2024. "Yes, of course there are a lot of users who support Palestine," said McGrady, who said he has used ADL data in his own media research in the past, "and no shortage of users who support Israel."
• Nechin, Etan (June 25, 2024). "Leading Jewish Groups Rebuke Wikipedia's 'Attack' on ADL's Credibility on Antisemitism". Haaretz. Archived from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024. In a strongly worded letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, a group of more than forty leading Jewish organizations, such as the Jewish Federations of North America, B'nai B'rith International, and HIAS, voiced their discontent over Wikipedia's recent evaluation of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) reliability on matters of antisemitism.
• "Jewish orgs pen letter to Wikipedia condemning ADL ban". The Jerusalem Post. June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024. The US Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said they 'express concern and dismay with Wikipedia's attack on ADL's reliability on the topic of antisemitism and other issues of central concern to the Jewish community.'
• "Jewish orgs pen letter to Wikipedia condemning ADL ban". Jewish News Syndicate. June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024. In its attack on the Anti-Defamation League, Wikipedia is "stripping the Jewish community of the right to defend itself from the hatred that targets our community," 43 Jewish organizations wrote to the Wikimedia Foundation board in a letter on Monday.
• Ghermezian, Shiryn (June 25, 2024). "Jewish Groups Lambast Wikipedia for Its 'Attack on ADL's Credibility' About Antisemitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved June 25, 2024. The ADL criticized Wikipedia's decision regarding its credibility when it was first announced last week. The civil rights organization called the decision "a sad development for research and education" and "devastating for the Jewish community and society."
• Elia-Shalev, Asaf (June 25, 2024). "Wikipedia's operator rebuffs Jewish groups' call to override editors on ADL trustworthiness". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved June 26, 2024. In a response to an inquiry from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the foundation did not address the content of the letter but appeared to reject its very premise.
• Tobin, Jonathan S. (June 26, 2024). "Censorship stand comes back to bite the ADL on Wikipedia". Jewish News Syndicate. Retrieved June 26, 2024. The decision of Wikipedia to label the ADL as an "unreliable source" on its site with respect to anything related to Israel generated a letter of protest from 43 of the largest and most influential American Jewish organizations, including a sampling of groups on the center, left and right.
• Brasch, Ben (June 26, 2024). "Wikipedia defends editors deeming Anti-Defamation League 'unreliable' on Gaza". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 27, 2024. Wikimedia underscored that the foundation has no input on the content. 'This independent relationship is crucial to ensuring Wikipedia remains neutral and free from institutional bias. The Foundation has not, and does not, intervene in decisions made by the community about the classification of a source,' per the statement.
• Deutch, Gabby (June 26, 2024). "Inside the war over Israel at Wikipedia". Jewish Insider. Retrieved September 17, 2024. The battles playing out on Wikipedia are likely to have an impact that stretches beyond the website.
• "Wikipedia defends decision to declare Anti-Defamation League an unreliable source on Israel-Palestine". Arab News. June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024. The Wikimedia Foundation, however, issued a statement on Wednesday supporting its editors' decision and the volunteer-led processes that "ensure that neutral, reliable information is available for all."

July

• Jacobson, Ken (July 1, 2024). "Wikipedia's Serious Problem: Bias Against Israel". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved July 1, 2024. In deeming ADL reporting as "unreliable," this subset of Wikipedia's editors has ignored all these forms of antisemitism that have emerged over the last eight months.
• Bhagat, Jitender (July 2, 2024). "The Hidden World of Wikipedia Page Creation Services". Entrepreneur India. Retrieved July 2, 2024. This is where Maximatic Media's expertise comes into play, crafting pages that not only go live but remain intact against the scrutiny of Wikipedia's dedicated community of editors and administrators.
• Paterra, Paul (July 8, 2024). "'Women in Red': PennWest prof helps close gender gap in Wikipedia entries". Observer–Reporter. Retrieved July 8, 2024. I think there are a lot of overlooked topics. There's room for us to add. They're trying very hard to identify gaps and recruit people to fill those gaps to sort of help out with some of those biases. They're taking action to try to make things more equitable.
• "When students tried to right a gender wrong". The Times of India. July 8, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024. According to a recently published article in Nature, currently, only about 19% of the English-language Wikipedia's 1.5 million biographies feature women.
• Read, Kristy (July 8, 2024). "Dal Libraries edit‑a‑thon fills gaps on Wikipedia about Mi'kmaw people and places". Dalhousie University. Retrieved July 11, 2024. Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Management, guided participants in learning the basics of Wikipedia article creation and editing. She then led the group in a collaborative effort to enhance entries on notable Mi'kmaw people and organizations.
• Byron, Avior (July 8, 2024). "Wikipedia in Arabic denies rape committed as weapon of war - opinion". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 11, 2024. While the Wikipedia definition of rape is largely consistent across cultures, its interpretation in various languages and contexts can be problematic. The Arabic talk page of the entry "Israel-Hamas war in Gaza" reveals a disturbing picture of denial and misinformation.
• "The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia". The Economist. July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2024 – via Mint. Despite long-running disagreements, Russian authorities have not yet blacklisted Wikipedia as they have dozens of other media. For the time being the two exist side by side. But the heavy investment in RuWiki suggests that Wikipedia's days are numbered.
• Khan, Khadija (July 11, 2024). "Why has ANI slapped a defamation case against Wikipedia?". The Indian Express. Retrieved July 11, 2024. ANI has argued that Wikipedia is a significant social media intermediary under the meaning of Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000:
• Newkey-Burden, Chas (July 12, 2024). "RuWiki: Russian Wikipedia rival that censors everything from Ukraine to oral sex". The Week. Retrieved July 12, 2024. Wikipedia has "faced trouble" from the Kremlin since the start of the Ukrainian war in 2014 , said The Economist, and is now one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia.
• Deep, Aroon (July 12, 2024). "Wikipedia parent responds to ANI defamation suit, says content by volunteer editors". The Hindu. Retrieved July 12, 2024. The case pits, potentially for the first time in such a significant way, Wikipedia's volunteer-centric editorial norms against Indian regulations like the IT Rules, 2021, which require all loosely defined internet "intermediaries" to take action against content online if it is, among other things, defamatory, and a court or government order is issued against them.
• Fam, Christopher (July 16, 2024). "Wikipedia finally adds a dark mode. Here's how to turn it on". The Star. Retrieved July 16, 2024. Wikipedia does note that the feature is currently experimental, with a "high likelihood of experiencing issues". As of writing, there has been no indication of whether the option will make its way to the desktop version of the website.
• Mendelle, Hava (July 16, 2024). "Wikipedia's powerful editors: our history is being written by Anon". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved July 16, 2024. The point is that no matter how robust the rules of Wikipedia's neutral point of view and good-natured ethos of volunteer editing, it is only as a good or as bad as its community. This is perhaps why more people should edit Wikipedia, contribute hours, learn the rules (even though they rarely matter), and put in effort to improve the encyclopedia.
• Chernaya, Yulia (July 17, 2024). "The death of the 'Wikipedia killer' The project Putin once proposed as a Wikipedia replacement has closed after the Russian government cut its funding". Meduza. Retrieved July 18, 2024. One possible reason funding for the Great Russian Encyclopedia was cut off is the emergence of RuWiki — a Russian-language version of Wikipedia that fully complies with Russian legislation and censorship.
• "Telugu chatbot aims to expand Wikipedia pages". The Times of India. July 23, 2024. Retrieved July 23, 2024. Wikipedia and Telangana IT department's joint venture with Swecha, Hyderabad, which is part of a free software movement of India, will see exchange of data between Wikipedia and the proposed chatbot.
• Myers, Alex (July 24, 2024). "The wildest Wikipedia major championship grids in golf history". Golf Digest. Retrieved July 25, 2024. That's where Golf Digest's Jamie Kennedy comes in. He's been compiling some of the wildest Wikipedia major grids. And on Tuesday, he shared them in a thread that was the perfect meshing of Wiki and Twitter. Have a look for yourself:
• Tabarovsky, Izabella (July 25, 2024). "Wikipedia's Jewish Problem". Tablet. Retrieved July 25, 2024. If one of the world's most influential conduits of knowledge decides it wants to turn itself into the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, that's its prerogative.
• Clarke, Bridget (July 25, 2024). "Women unite to boost online representation". The Canberra Times. Retrieved July 26, 2024. Hosted by Franklin Women, an organisation that supports women entering and working in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine, the event trained 30 women to become Wikipedia editors, or "wikimedians".
• Bandler, Aaron (July 25, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Title Article "Gaza Genocide"". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved July 26, 2024. "The Wikipedia Flood" editor argued that editors have "stacked the deck" by axing various pro-Israel sources while allowing anti-Israel sources like Al Jazeera, The Guardian and the U.N.
• Purdy, Kevin (July 29, 2024). "Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass". Ars Technica. Retrieved July 30, 2024. Wikipedia's tracker for bugs and issues, Phabricator, shows a "Provide a dark / night mode skin or theme" ticket going back to June 22, 2010. Things really start picking up in early 2022, and the discussion goes lots of places, including accessibility, machine learning, and color-coded map keys. The broad task was marked as "Resolved" on July 12, though many subtasks remain.
• Cleal, Olivia (July 30, 2024). "Less than 20 per cent of Wikipedia bios are on women. These Wikipedians want to change that". Women's Agenda. Retrieved July 30, 2024. Caddie Brain began her time as a Wikipedian working as a journalist in the Northern Territory – and once she started, she couldn't stop. "In my mind, it's absolutely one of the greatest volunteer movements of all time," Brain said.
• Green, Baruch (July 30, 2024). "In Rare Rebuke, Agudath Israel Slams Wikipedia for Censoring ADL". Vos Iz Neias?. Retrieved August 1, 2024. In a rare move, Agudath Israel of America has posted a statement on X, slamming Wikipedia for its censorship of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Agudah decried the leftist platform's decision to "delegitimize citing to the ADL in its characterization of Hamas' attacks, and potentially on antisemitism generally".
• Hafner, Katie; McNulty, Sophie (July 30, 2024). "This Researcher Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance". Scientific American. Retrieved August 1, 2024. And for most gender inequalities that you see in the world, you can't do anything about it, but for Wikipedia, you really absolutely can.

August

• Otteman, Birgit (August 1, 2024). "IsiNdebele enjoys major boost on Wikipedia, thanks to SWiP". bizcommunity.com. Retrieved August 1, 2024. While all the South African languages are important, the project kicked off with a special focus on isiNdebele, which had 11 articles on Wikipedia. Thanks to the SWiP Project series of training workshops across South Africa during Phase One of the project, this number has jumped to an impressive 128 articles in less than a year.
• Mwiza, Shallon (August 2, 2024). "How accurate is information about Rwanda on open-source platforms?". The New Times. Retrieved October 11, 2024. [...] topics related to Rwanda, such as the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, or current political issues, can be particularly sensitive and prone to biased editing
• "Santali Wikipedia celebrates 6th anniversary". Orissa Post. August 4, 2024. Retrieved August 4, 2024. To build collaborative efforts to enhance Santali language content online, Wikipedians joined hands together to commemorate the 6th anniversary of Santali Wikipedia.
• Harrison, Stephen (August 4, 2024). "The World Is Forgetting About These Olympians. This Project Is Immortalizing Them". Slate. Retrieved August 4, 2024. For many years, the general consensus among Wikipedia editors was that any individual who participated in the Olympics was presumably notable and therefore eligible for an encyclopedia article on the site. However, after extensive community discussions in 2021 and 2022, Wikipedia editors decided to discard this participation-based standard.
• Menken, Yaakov (August 6, 2024). "Wikipedia hates Israel and Jews". Jewish News Syndicate. Retrieved August 6, 2024. Wikipedia's antisemitism is practically ubiquitous across the website. It features an extensive article accusing Israel of "war crimes," "indiscriminate attacks" and "genocide" as Israel seeks to eliminate the Hamas terror organization.
• "Celebrating Wikipedia". The Economist. August 6, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024. Amid fretting over social-media addiction and disinformation, Wikipedia is one of the internet's great successes.
• "How Wikipedia turned left, Walz's lockdown tyranny and other commentary". New York Post. August 7, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024. A "massive culture shift at Wikipedia" has been "precipitated by the rise of a new social-justice-minded power structure at Wikimedia Foundation," reports Ashley Rindsberg at Pirate Wires.
• Mehta, Ivan (August 8, 2024). "How to enable Wikipedia's dark mode". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 9, 2024. If you visited the Wikipedia website on mobile in July, you might have seen a pop-up indicating that dark mode is ready for prime time. Here is how you can turn it on mobile:
• "Wikimania 2024 Awards recognize Vira Motorko, Ukrainian Wikipedia administrator, as outstanding Functionary of the Year category at the "Wikimania 2024" annual international conference for online encyclopedists". Rubryka. August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024. Furthermore, the title of "Wikimedian of the Year" is bestowed upon individuals within the Wikipedia community and other Wikimedia endeavors as a yearly honor for their valuable contributions to the advancement of open knowledge.
• "Wikimania 2024 honours Indian Wikipedia volunteer, Siddharth VP, names him 'Tech contributor of the year'". The Hindu. August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024. The theme of Wikimania 2024 was 'Collaboration of the Open.' The conference can be watched via the Wikimania website.
• Bejerano, Pablo G. (August 10, 2024). "How Wikipedia is surviving in the age of ChatGPT". El País. Retrieved August 15, 2024. With more than 16 billion visits per month, Wikipedia's prestige is beyond question. That's why it's the best place to insert disinformation or marketing messages from companies or individuals.
• Clark Tiernan, Meaghan (August 12, 2024). "Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Helps Close the Information Gaps on Santa Barbara's History". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved August 16, 2024. So, in the middle of summer, a group of strangers — a hodgepodge of professors, filmmakers, retirees, and students — sacrificed precious weekend hours to spend it among the archives, microfilm, and stacks to learn how to write a Wikipedia post centered around Santa Barbara's history.
• Sulima, Jessica (August 13, 2024). "The Best Form of Travel Inspo". Thrillist. Retrieved August 15, 2024. I like to spend this time reading, and my content of choice is the Wikipedia page dedicated to the country or city I'm about to travel to. I won't board that plane until I've made it all the way down to "See also."
• Holzman, Avi (August 13, 2024). "Stephen Harrison's debut novel says Wikipedia matters (regardless of what your middle-school teachers might say)". Student Life. Retrieved August 16, 2024. No matter how much professors tell you not to use it, Wikipedia will be a part of that journey, mostly working unseen in the code of search results and ChatGPT questions. Harrison shows us the risks of corrupting that shared truth that is guiding us all.
• Shinde, Jayesh (August 14, 2024). "Wikipedia's role in India's digital knowledge revolution". Digit. Retrieved August 15, 2024. It'd be fair to say that Wikipedia's visitors are innately curious, choosing to go beyond just the result of their search engine keywords in a slightly deeper pursuit to expand their knowledge. Nowhere is this more visible than in India.
• Hutton, Richard (August 19, 2024). "Niagara resident named Wikimedian of the Year". Thorold Today. Retrieved August 20, 2024. The Wikimedian of the Year is selected personally by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who started the platform in 2002, a year before Clover was born.

• Gerbic, Susan (August 23, 2024). "Join Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia—and Help Us Find More Science Experts". Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved August 23, 2024. I have reached out to museums, astronomy clubs, science podcasts, and more. I often either don't hear back or they hand-wave me off, explaining that no one uses Wikipedia for science education. They couldn't be more wrong!
• Viečaitė, Kornelija; Balčiauskas, Mindaugas (August 28, 2024). "'Depths Of Wikipedia': This Page Is Dedicated To The Weird Side Of Wikipedia (97 New Pics)". Bored Panda. Retrieved August 28, 2024. Your teachers may have told you that Wikipedia is not a solid source for academic essays. But that doesn't mean it's not a good source to have a laugh or two.
• Roberts, Sophie (August 30, 2024). "Wikipedia users mind-blown after finding hidden function they never knew about". Daily Record. Retrieved August 30, 2024. But despite many of us using Wikipedia on a regular basis, there are things we still don't know about it. For example, there's a really easy way to simplify articles.
• Rogers, Jacob (August 30, 2024). "Wikipedia and the Digital Services Act: Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation". The New Federalist. Retrieved August 31, 2024. For many, including tech journalists and policymakers, it may come as a surprise to learn that Wikipedia is in the same DSA category as some of the best known for-profit social media websites, such as Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), and YouTube.
• Roberts, Sophie (August 30, 2024). "People only just learning hidden Wikipedia function that makes site easier to read". Daily Mirror. Retrieved August 31, 2024. For example, did you know that you can actually shorten lengthy articles and make them easier to read? It's a total game-changer when you're short on time and don't want to wade through swathes of text.

September

• Yaffa, Joshua (September 2, 2024). "How to Give Away a Fortune". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 3, 2024. In the end, the only real conflict arose in the education group, where a debate erupted among the eleven members over whether to send funds to Wikipedia. ... Things got tense.
• Mukesh, G R (September 5, 2024). "ANI Sues Wikipedia: 'If You Don't Like India, Don't Work Here,' Says Delhi HC". The Free Press Journal. Retrieved September 5, 2024. Justice Chawla stated in the application that the government should block Wikipedia in this country and that Wikipedia should stop doing business in India.
• "Wikipedia to shut down in India? Shocking news coming in". Rozana Spokesman. September 5, 2024. Retrieved September 5, 2024. Justice Navin Chawla expressed strong disapproval of Wikipedia's actions, warning that failure to comply could result in serious consequences, including potential contempt of court and even a government-imposed ban on the platform in India.
• "'Will ask government to block Wikipedia': Delhi HC issues contempt of court notice to platform". Scroll.in. September 5, 2024. Retrieved September 5, 2024. The court ordered a representative of Wikipedia to be present in court on October 25, when the matter will be heard next.
• Yadav, Krishna (September 5, 2024). "Delhi HC warns Wikipedia over ANI defamation case, issues contempt notice". Mint. Retrieved September 5, 2024. Justice Navin Chawla, presiding over the case, issued a contempt notice to Wikimedia and delivered a stern warning to the company.
• "Delhi High Court cautions Wikipedia for non-compliance of order". The Hindu. September 5, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024. ANI told the court that despite reminding Wikipedia of the court order to disclose the subscribers who made the edits, it declined to disclose the details. "This clearly demonstrates wilful disobedience of the order," ANI said.
• "Fall in line or will get you blocked: HC to Wikipedia". The Tribune. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024. Upset over its failure to disclose information about those who made edits on the entry page of news agency Asian News International (ANI), the Delhi High Court on Thursday warned Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, that it can ask the government to block it.
• "Will ask govt to block your site, Delhi HC warns Wikipedia". The Times of India. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024. The news agency has sought to restrain the online portal from allowing allegedly defamatory edited content to remain on the page about ANI on Wikipedia and also sought its removal, apart from Rs 2 crore as damages.
• "Wikipedia says it is going to keep connection active in India, a day after Delhi HC warns of ban". India Today. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024. The court case against Wikipedia is significant because the outcome in it may open Pandora's Box. Throughout the world, Wikipedia has often faced ire of governments, politicians, organisations, celebrities and notable figures over the information in Wikipedia pages related to them.
• Paul, James (September 6, 2024). "Delhi HC's 'Don't Work In India If You Don't Like India' Remark To Wiki Draws Online Flake: 'Against Free Speech'". Mashable. Retrieved September 6, 2024. Here's how the internet reacted to the Delhi HC's diktat over an agency merely letting the lay exercise their right of free speech and expression.
• Jarry, Jonathan (September 6, 2024). "Can You Trust Dr. Wikipedia?". Office for Science and Society. Retrieved September 7, 2024. Looking at Wikipedia through a microscope is thus really hard, but there are trends that emerge from these imperfect snapshots. Wikipedia, overall, has no business being this good.
• Deep, Aroon (September 11, 2024). "On ANI's defamation suit against Wikipedia | Explained". The Hindu. Retrieved September 11, 2024. The site also suffers from a weakness under Indian law — unlike social media companies, it has no procedure in place to block access to articles after receiving a court order. In 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation termed a prior draft of the IT Rules, 2021, which enable such blocking orders, as having "the potential to limit free expression rights for internet users across the country".
• Bandler, Aaron (September 11, 2024). "Wikipedia's Fundamental Sourcing Problem". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved September 11, 2024. Meanwhile, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian and CNN are all considered "generally reliable" on Wikipedia's RSP list. This alone creates a left-leaning bias on Wikipedia, but what makes it even worse is that far-left sources — MSNBC, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Intercept and Jacobin — as well as partisan sources like Vox are also rated as "generally reliable" on Wikipedia.
• Farooqui, Faisal (September 11, 2024). "Wikipedia and the protection offered by SC's Shreya Singal judgement". Moneycontrol. Retrieved September 11, 2024. Recent developments surrounding the Delhi High Court's remarks on Wikipedia have sparked significant concern. The suggestion that Wikipedia could face a ban in India due to a petition from ANI is troubling and threatens the very essence of the knowledge revolution that India is experiencing.
• Duncan, Alastair (September 11, 2024). "Follow Taylor Swift to combat misinformation with truth, says Lumino's Rhiannon Ruff". The Drum. Retrieved September 11, 2024. In a world where truth seems increasingly elusive, Wikipedia stands as a testament to the power of collaborative knowledge-building. While not perfect, it offers a model for how online platforms can strive for accuracy and neutrality in the face of polarizing forces.
• Harrison, Stephen (September 12, 2024). "Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?". The Guardian. Retrieved September 12, 2024. When someone notices a topic that is poorly described on Wikipedia, they might feel motivated to correct it. But this can-do spirit goes away when the error comes through an AI summary, where the source of the information isn't clear.
• "ANI vs Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia's presence in India". The Hindu. September 12, 2024. Retrieved September 12, 2024. While the Delhi High Court suggests a potential ban on Wikipedia, the country holds its fifth-largest user base in the world, hosting articles in 23 Indian languages
• Winton, Aviva (September 13, 2024). "Wikipedia has an antisemitism problem - opinion". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved September 13, 2024. The latest scandal involving Wikipedia should, by any reasonable measure, hammer a final nail into the coffin of its credibility as a reliable source of information about Israel and Jews.
• Vatyam, Nirupa (September 15, 2024). "Using AI, IIITH team generates Wiki Sandbox of over 1m Telugu articles". The Times of India. Retrieved September 15, 2024. The team used LLM and Gen AI for this project, which has been underway since 2021. It is now hoping that volunteers will come forward to upload it to Wikipedia.
• Au, Vivian (September 15, 2024). "Wikipedia bans user for 'alleged trolling, doxxing and intimidation' of Hong Kong journalists". South China Morning Post. Retrieved September 15, 2024. Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia said on Saturday that it had taken the "extremely rare action" of globally banning a user who was found to be involved in alleged acts of trolling, doxxing and intimidation against Hong Kong journalists.
• Linn, Erez (September 17, 2024). "Wikipedia entry on Zionism defines it as 'colonialism', sparking outrage". Israel Hayom. Retrieved September 17, 2024. With millions of readers relying on the site for information, changes to entries like these can have significant implications for public understanding of historical events and modern geopolitical debates.
• Shah, Nishant (September 17, 2024). "Why the case against Wikipedia in India is a challenge to freedom of speech and information". The Indian Express. Retrieved September 17, 2024. The complaint and the judgment both seem to miss out on the fact that Wikipedia is not a platform, a site, or an app. It is a movement that believes that information should be free and that there is space for dialogue and conversation in a world that is increasingly polarised and clamping down on the ideals of freedom of speech and expression.
• Coffman, Nick (September 20, 2024). "Wikipedia Awfully Close to Selling Your Data Unless You Fork Over Some Cash". Hard Drive. Retrieved September 20, 2024. At press time the Wikimedia Foundation had broken donation records and staved off Patreon and selling data, for now.
• Hunt, Pete (September 22, 2024). "Will Indian Courts Tame Wikipedia?". The Diplomat. Retrieved September 22, 2024. That may change soon, though, as two recent court cases concerning Wikipedia raised alarms after a high-court judge threatened to ban the encyclopedia if identified users weren't unmasked and a spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) labeled the site as part of the "Western deep state."
• Schmad, Robert (September 23, 2024). "Wikipedia Donations Go Toward Embedding Feminism And Racial Justice In World's Largest Encyclopedia". The Daily Caller. Retrieved September 26, 2024. "I'm not surprised that Wikimedia's liberal-left leadership would do everything in its power to drive left-wing narratives into Wikipedia communities," Capital Research Center research director Michael Watson told the DCNF.

October

• Hasan, Mahmudul (October 3, 2024). "Bangladesh's writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 4, 2024. I hope Wikipedia entry-producers and others will consider describing writers with provenance in the spatial (not temporal) boundary of Bangladesh as Bangladeshi.
• Boichak, Olga (October 4, 2024). "How Russia Invaded Wikipedia". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 5, 2024. Though other countries like China, Turkey, India, and Pakistan have either banned or threatened to ban Wikipedia, Ruwiki's full control over facts will allow the Kremlin to retell history on its own terms—including denying its war crimes in Ukraine.
• Maiberg, Emanuel (October 9, 2024). "The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes". 404 Media. Retrieved October 9, 2024. WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
• Schrader, Lucy (October 9, 2024). "Join the fun at Te Papa with a Wikipedia editathon". The Post. Retrieved October 10, 2024. The anniversary of Te Maori means a lot of people are talking – and learning – about it right now. And when we want to learn something, our first stop is often Wikipedia.
• Cope, Jordan (October 10, 2024). "It's time to correct Wikipedia's dangerous anti-Israel bias - opinion". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 10, 2024. In recent years, Wikipedia's shortfalls have become apparent through its intensifying anti-Israel biases, evidenced by its shameless anti-Israel activism, efforts to erase Israeli identity, and discrepancies that seemingly whitewash anti-Israel terrorism.
• Ghosh, Sohini (October 15, 2024). "Non-transparent system will have to go: Delhi HC pulls up Wikipedia". The Indian Express. Retrieved October 15, 2024. Unimpressed by WMF's argument, CJ Manmohan remarked, "The system cannot be a cloak… The architecture has been devised by you… You're more than an intermediary… Your system will have to go, you're a non-transparent system… You're not even telling us who is the author of this. You can't get away by saying someone is an agent… You're protecting the identity of the person who has done this… We are warning you…"
• "Wikipedia to hold Ukrainian Language Week – ministry". Interfax-Ukraine. October 15, 2024. Retrieved October 15, 2024. The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine together with NGO Wikimedia Ukraine will hold the Ukrainian Language Week in Wikipedia from October 15 to November 5.
• "UNESCO Empowers Indonesian Wikipedia Administrators to Combat Disinformation and Hate Speech Ahead of 2024 Regional Elections". UNESCO. October 17, 2024. Retrieved October 18, 2024. Moving forward, UNESCO is set to conduct a series of follow-up trainings for local Wikimedia communities, including artists and writers, across three regions in Indonesia.
• Wineburg, Sam; Ziv, Nadar (October 17, 2024). "Go ahead and use Wikipedia for research". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 18, 2024. No, Wikipedia isn't an unreliable source that anyone can edit and that should be avoided. In 2024, it has become a remarkably rigorous self-correcting resource that all of us should be using more often.
• Ahsan, Sofi (October 20, 2024). "ANI versus Wikipedia: What is at stake?". Bar and Bench. Retrieved October 20, 2024. If users who only collate information after hyperlinking relevant sources are made liable for their actions as opposed to publications that have originally published the alleged defamatory statements, what would happen to the repository of information that Wikipedia is?
• Thill, Marc (October 20, 2024). "The unsung heroes of Luxembourg's online knowledge hub". Luxembourg Times. Retrieved October 20, 2024. Luxembourg Wikipedia operates on the principle of free collaboration, with no central authority directing content creation. However, a dedicated group of volunteers ensures the quality and integrity of the information presented.
• Heller, Mathilda (October 21, 2024). "Wikipedia's page on Zionism is partly edited by an anti-Zionist - investigation". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 22, 2024. THIS IS not the first instance of Wikipedia editors being accused of skewing the narrative against Israel, Jews, and Zionism.
• Deep, Aroon (October 21, 2024). "In a first, Wikipedia takes down article globally after Delhi HC order". The Hindu. Retrieved October 23, 2024. Takedown or alteration requests have only been complied with in less than half-a-dozen instances in Wikipedia's history, after requests from Germany, France and Ukraine, as per transparency reports published by the foundation since 2012.
• Srivastava, Bhavini (October 25, 2024). "Delhi High Court flags Wikipedia model as "dangerous"". Bar & Bench. Retrieved October 25, 2024. The Delhi High Court on Friday remarked that it is "dangerous" how Wikipedia functions as a platform, especially given how anyone can edit pages on the platform.
• Bandler, Aaron (October 25, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Place a Near Total Ban on Calling Gaza Health Ministry "Hamas-Run"". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved October 26, 2024. Because Wikipedia articles are supposed to reflect what reliable sources say, editors sparred over whether or not sources use such a qualifier when citing the ministry's numbers and if sources view the ministry's numbers as reliable.
• Zhou, Dale; Patankar, Shubhankar; Lydon-Staley, David M.; Zurn, Perry; Gerlach, Martin; Bassett, Dani S. (October 25, 2024). "Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership". Science Advances. Retrieved October 26, 2024. Here, we analyze a naturalistic population of 482,760 readers using Wikipedia's mobile app in 14 languages from 50 countries or territories.
• Sander, Len (October 25, 2024). "Bericht: So soll Wikipedia von Anti-Israel-Aktivisten unterwandert worden sein" [Report: Wikipedia allegedly infiltrated by anti-Israel activists]. Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved December 5, 2024. Even though most of these changes have been reversed - the English-language version of the article on the subject of Jews, for example, contains the link to the historical Kingdom of Israel - the effect of concerted online campaigns should not be underestimated. [Translation by Google translate]
• Martin, Johnson (October 26, 2024). "Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Science says you're one of these three types". The Conversation. Retrieved October 26, 2024. Studying Wikipedia readers reveals a rich picture of people's freely expressed, diverse online curiosities. It shows an alternative to technologies built on narrower assumptions about what people value, how we learn, and how we want to explore online.
• "Wikipedia's open-access editing 'dangerous': Delhi HC". The Times of India. October 26, 2024. Retrieved October 26, 2024. The court was particularly concerned about open access editing feature, where users can add or delete information about a particular person or entity featured on a Wikipedia page.
• Kanjilal, Pratik (October 26, 2024). "Lessons from Wikipedia". The New Indian Express. Retrieved October 26, 2024. Not foregrounding the public standing of editors brings a kind of egalitarian rigour to Wikipedia that even academic publishing does not have. To expose editors by court order would disturb a delicate balance. And when editors play safe, powerful interests get away with murder.
• Ford, Heather; Sidoti, Francesca; Falk, Michael; Pietsch, Tamson (October 27, 2024). "We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some sanitised history, others privileged fiction over reality". The Conversation. Retrieved October 27, 2024. We analysed more than 35,000 entries about Australian places in the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, including more than half a million edits to these articles. We also interviewed 14 active editors of articles about Australia. Ours is the first project to analyse Australian Wikipedia entries.
• Eriksson, Thord (October 28, 2024). "Har inte samvete att stötta Wikipedia" [(I) Have not the conscience to support Wikipedia]. Biblioteksbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved October 28, 2024. - The purpose was to make visible the double minority of LGBTQ people in Swedish Finland. It was about creating new articles and replenishing old articles. After the writing workshop, Wikipedia's administrators had comments on several articles, deleted several, and suggested that others be removed.
• "How Australia is represented in Wikipedia and why it matters". Phys.org. October 28, 2024. Retrieved October 28, 2024. The first study of how Wikipedia represents Australian places has highlighted how aspects of the online encyclopedia and choices made by the volunteer editors who work on it can lead to absences, omissions and sanitized views in articles about Australia.
• Poddar, Umang (October 30, 2024). "Why Wikipedia has landed in legal trouble in India". BBC. Retrieved October 30, 2024. Experts say that the outcome of the case is likely to have significant ramifications for the platform's operations in India.
• Mandhani, Apoorva (October 30, 2024). "In ANI vs Wikimedia, Round 1 goes to India's tech law. The US firm has taken a beating twice". ThePrint. Retrieved October 30, 2024. However, this isn't the first time the platform has been dragged to court for its content. It has won some, and lost some.
• "Wikipedia Says "Knowledge Is Human" in Latest Campaign". Little Black Book. October 30, 2024. Retrieved October 30, 2024. The campaign highlights that information can be manipulated by the few, but verified by the many, and spotlights the role we all play in shaping a shared understanding.

November

• "The Depths of Wikipedians". Asterisk Magazine. November 1, 2024. Retrieved December 11, 2024. If you love Wikipedia, working at the Foundation is probably your dream job. It's amazing. But people butt heads with the Foundation a lot. It's fun to complain about The Man. That's definitely part of it.
• Chiaramonte, Perry (November 2, 2024). "Wikipedia's Neutrality Under Fire as Studies Find Left-Leaning Bias". The New York Sun. Retrieved November 4, 2024. What the professor uncovered in his study was that Wikipedia's content possesses a moderate tendency to have a more negative sentiment associate with public figures who are right-of-center compared to people who are left-of-center politically.
• Merlin, Ohad (November 3, 2024). "Wikipedia in Arabic: A hotbed for bigotry, misinformation, and bias - investigative report". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved November 4, 2024. However, as the endeavors to dismiss the Jewish narratives ensue on the English pages, the Arabic version of Wikipedia seems to have its own rules.
• "'Wikipedia editors colluded to delegitimize Israel'". Jewish News Syndicate. November 3, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024. Scores of Wikipedia editors have led a coordinated campaign to delegitimize Israel and present radical Islamist groups in a favorable light over recent years, according to a report published last month.
• Aharoni Lir, Shlomit (November 4, 2024). "The crime of the century? Bias in the English Wikipedia article on Zionism". Ynet. Retrieved November 5, 2024. So, what's going on here? Reviewing talk pages reveals a pattern where certain editors, with vested interests, block efforts to balance portrayals — even when presented with credible evidence supporting alternative perspectives. This hijacking of neutrality — the true "crime of the century" on Wikipedia—undermines its reputation as a reliable information source.
• Bhalla, Vineet (November 5, 2024). "A Delhi High Court case could end up threatening how Wikipedia works in India". Scroll.in. Retrieved November 5, 2024. Wikimedia's decision to share user information with the court may lead to users who edited the ANI page getting involved in the suit. This is a matter of concern for Wikipedia editors, who see this as an infringement of their freedom of speech. "Disclosure of the identities of contributors without an offence being established first will have a chilling effect on the community," researcher, technologist and Wikipedian Rohini Lakshané explained to Scroll.
• "Government puts Wikipedia on notice, points out complaints of 'bias an inaccuracies'". The Times of India. November 5, 2024. Retrieved November 5, 2024. Wikipedia presents itself as a free online encyclopedia, allowing volunteers to create and edit pages on a wide range of topics, including personalities, issues, and various subjects.
• "Govt to Wikipedia: Why it should not be treated as publisher instead of intermediary". The Tribune. November 5, 2024. Retrieved November 5, 2024. The Centre has written to Wikipedia noting numerous complaints of bias and inaccuracies in information provided by it, and asked why it should not be treated as a publisher instead of an intermediary, sources said on Tuesday.
• Pandey, Manisha (November 5, 2024). "Government raps Wikipedia over 'bias', says small group controls edits: Sources". India Today. Retrieved November 5, 2024. Wikipedia has faced growing criticism for alleged bias and inaccuracies, especially amid the ongoing US presidential elections. Elon Musk, owner of X and a billionaire entrepreneur, has publicly accused Wikipedia of supporting far-left ideologies. Musk also urged the public to stop donating to Wikipedia, claiming it is controlled by "far-left activists."
• Kakkar, Shruti (November 5, 2024). "Disclaimer won't absolve you of anything: HC to Wikipedia". Hindustan Times. Retrieved November 5, 2024. The court posted the matter for November 6 and asked Wikipedia to answer why editors of an encyclopaedia should not make their names public.
• Yadav, Nandini (November 6, 2024). "Why has the Indian government issued a notice to Wikipedia? Explained in 5 points". India Today. Retrieved November 6, 2024. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has now issued a notice to Wikipedia, challenging its intermediary status, which is provided to tech platforms in India. Here is everything that is happening in the Wikipedia case in India, in 5 points.
• Parasnis, Sharveya (November 6, 2024). "Republic TV to Pursue Legal Action Against Wikipedia, Citing Bias and "Agenda"". MediaNama. Retrieved November 6, 2024. Goswami also called [Wikipedia] a "closely guarded, extremely radical left set up whose editorial control is in the hands of a few hundred so called editors or administrators." This structure gave an "almost fascist power" to a select group of people who could ban users, black list sources or decide what edits to make. These people depend on "radical left sources" and end up "peddling fake news."
• "Wikipedia vs India". The Tribune. November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024. However, India's demand that Wikipedia be classified as a publisher would impose stricter regulations, requiring it to ensure accuracy and neutrality actively. Such a shift could affect Wikipedia's operations in India, which boasts of being one of its largest user bases.
• Sanzgiri, Vallari (November 6, 2024). "Experts challenge Govt's threat to reclassify Wikipedia from intermediary to publisher". Business Line. Retrieved November 6, 2024. "The Court must be assisted to understand that Wikimedia Foundation is not like Twitter or Facebook where a centralized entity controls what's published on it. We cannot force the only place on the Internet that is trustworthy and doesn't surveil its readers for advertisements to be subjected to arbitrary Rules because of our inability to appreciate the editorial and technical architecture," said Choudhary.
• Agrawal, Aditi (November 6, 2024). "No government notice received in the last two days, says Wikimedia Foundation". Hindustan Times. Retrieved November 6, 2024. The platform issued the statement in response to the reports by the news agencies. HT has reached out to MIB for comment and a copy of the communication that had been reportedly sent to WF.
• Fink, Rachel (November 7, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Add Article Titled 'Gaza Genocide' to 'List of Genocides' Page". Haaretz. Retrieved November 7, 2024. The ruling is part of a larger debate taking place across Wikipedia about what qualifies as a reputable source, particularly when it relates to the highly contentious Israel-Palestine conflict.
• Parton, Russell (November 9, 2024). "Climate change researchers make 100 improvements to Wikipedia ahead of COP29". University of Exeter. Retrieved November 9, 2024. In recent years, Wikipedia's model has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to debunk false claims and counteract the spread of disinformation, thanks to its community-driven editing process.
• Polkinghorne, Sarah (November 10, 2024). "Going down Wikipedia rabbit hole". The New Indian Express. Retrieved November 10, 2024. This new study examines data about Wikipedia readers' activities. It looks at the different "architectural styles of curiosity" people embody when they navigate.
• Seeman, Neil; Ballabon, Jeff (November 18, 2024). "Opinion: Wikipedia has it out for Israel, and we've got the data to prove it". National Post. Retrieved December 1, 2024. While Wikipedia's collaborative model has democratized knowledge creation, our analysis reveals alarming patterns of bias that can cascade through the digital information ecosystem, infecting everything from search engine results to academic citations to social media posts and even AI training data.
• "Who edits history? Politics and business in the pages of Wikipedia". EU Reporter. November 22, 2024. Retrieved December 7, 2024. These are not all the countries whose reputations have suffered because of Wikipedia. Its articles do not portray Israel in the best light.
• Norton, Jim (November 27, 2024). "'Wikipedia is as biased as the BBC': How the Left took over the platform". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved December 1, 2024. Wales, Wikipedia's other co-founder who is chief executive of its parent company, the Wikimedia Foundation, has insisted the website is not "woke" and its "not true" to suggest it has become a standard bearer for Left-wing causes.
• Mukunth, Vasudevan (November 29, 2024). "Wikipedia and the ANI defamation suit Explained". The Hindu. Retrieved December 1, 2024. The defamation suit misrepresents Wikipedia's overall architecture. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a non-profit organisation based in the U.S. that's been impleaded as the first defendant, does not play a role in determining the contents on Wikipedia.
• "Times of Malta co-hosts free workshops to learn how to edit Wikipedia". Times of Malta. November 30, 2024. Retrieved December 1, 2024. As Malta's largest and most trusted news organisation, we are proud to be contributing to Wikipedia and adding to knowledge and information in the public domain.

December

• Hart, Benjamin (December 2, 2024). "Jimmy Wales on Why Wikipedia Is Still So Good". Intelligencer. Retrieved December 2, 2024. The idea that a user-generated compendium of human knowledge could be reliable seems even more audacious today than it did in 2001 — yet it is widely (if not universally) acknowledged that Wikipedia works.
• Towfighi, John (December 3, 2024). "The most popular Wikipedia pages of 2024". CNN. Retrieved December 3, 2024. The crowdsourced encyclopedia offers a snapshot of what topics captivate the public, become global trends or define a specific year, similar to Oxford's word of the year. English-language Wikipedia was viewed over 76 billion times globally this year as of October, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Weiss, Debbie (December 4, 2024). "Wikipedia's Quiet Revolution: How a Coordinated Group of Editors Reshaped the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved December 5, 2024. In a detailed exposé published by the American media company Pirate Wires in October, Rindsberg outlined a coalition of approximately 40 Wikipedia editors that has systematically altered thousands of articles to tilt public opinion against Israel.
• Madhavendra Pratap, Rishabh (December 4, 2024). "Wikipedia's Most-Read Articles of 2024: Indian Topics Take Center Stage". Times Now. Retrieved December 5, 2024. India remains a major contributor to Wikipedia's global success. Averaging over 900 million monthly page views, India is among the top ten nations in terms of Wikipedia readership.
• Bahizi, Heritier (December 5, 2024). "How Creative Commons licenses can transform Rwandan storytelling". The New Times. Retrieved December 11, 2024. In Rwanda, efforts are focused on encouraging citizens to curate content that showcases the country's culture and unique stories, aiming to address the underrepresentation of local narratives on international platforms.
• Merlin, Ohad (December 12, 2024). "Wikipedia suspends pro-Palestine editors coordinating efforts behind the scenes". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 12, 2024. These measures were taken against the said editors following attempts at "canvassing," which is regarded by Wikipedia as bringing fellow editors into a discussion regarding a specific edit "with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way, and is considered inappropriate."
• Gogarty, Josiah (December 13, 2024). ""Wikipedia boyfriends" on celebrating their gloriously mundane online hobby". GQ. Retrieved December 13, 2024. "Wikipedia makes you feel like you get things more," says James. When he comes out of a binge on Instagram Reels, he feels terrible. When he comes out of a Wikipedia binge, he has three or four cool facts he can tell his friends. Sammi feels the same. "It's better for me to do this before I go to bed than doomscroll," she says. "If I've had a stressful day and I need to do something calming, I can fall down a rabbit hole of my choosing."
• Seznec, Erwan (December 13, 2024). "Wikipédia, plongée dans la fabrique d'une manipulation" [Wikipedia, a dive into the making of a manipulation]. Le Point. Retrieved December 15, 2024. The audiences are impressive: with 3.8 million visitors per day, Wikipedia is one of the ten most visited French-language sites. Of course, hoaxes are plentiful. Wikipedia quickly foils them thanks to the collective vigilance of contributors, assisted by anti-vandalism robots. Articles on the "tsoin-tsoin fly" or the "abolition of tea time in England" did not survive long. (translation with Google translate)
• Parasnis, Sharveya (December 16, 2024). "Wikipedia's Actions Go Beyond Intermediary Status: ANI To Delhi HC". MediaNama. Retrieved December 16, 2024. Kumar claimed that Wikipedia resisted "tooth and nail" serving summons to the editors, who were arrayed as defendants two, three and four in the case. The platform had also resisted the interrogatories Kumar had issued, which asked for the details of Wikipedia's communications with the editors. This came after Wikipedia allegedly stated publicly that they had informed the editors when the suit had first started in July.

See also

• WP:Wikipedia in blogs
• WP:Wikipedia on TV and radio
• WP:Press coverage of health information