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A January 2016 article in Time by Chris Wilson said Wikipedia might lose many editors because a collaboration of occasional editors and smart software will take the lead. [28] Andrew Lih and Andrew Brown both maintain editing Wikipedia with smartphones is difficult and discourages new potential contributors.
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, it has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic pages, has led to ...
NY Times Article - Here's an interesting article I read today in the NYTimes. It talks about problems with only using printed material as sources. When Knowledge Isn’t Written, Does It Still Count? - Critics of Wikipedia are pushing it to expand beyond the traditional Western model of scholarship and authority: the written word.
Fitzgerald wanted to demonstrate the potential dangers of news reporters' reliance on the internet for information. [228] Although Fitzgerald's edits were removed three times from the Wikipedia article for lack of sourcing, [229] they were nevertheless copied into obituary columns in newspapers worldwide. [230]
Non-sensical articles. Wikipedia has a large number of articles which could be considered rather irrelevant for something billing itself as an encyclopedia, such as "teh" (a misspelling of the word "the"), List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck", Goatse (an Internet shock site), Toilets in Japan, and The Flowers of Romance ...
Government censorship of Wikipedia (may come with demands of changes to Wikipedia / Wikipedia content) (See also: Help:Censorship) . Proposed countermeasures or solutions: political engagement, improving anonymous / censorship-resistant access-methods (such as creating a Tor.onion-site or an I2P eepsite and allowing VPN write access), meshnet, actively distributing Wikipedia, categorically ...
Disputes on Wikipedia arise from Wikipedians, who are volunteer editors, disagreeing over article content, internal Wikipedia affairs, or alleged misconduct. Disputes often manifest as repeated competing changes to an article, known as " edit wars ", where instead of making small changes, edits are "reverted" wholesale.
While the examples Vrandečić highlighted in that April 2020 Signpost article are simple calculations such as unit conversions that are already implemented on Wikipedia today using thousands of Lua-based templates (e.g. {} for the inches to centimeters translation), the working paper published earlier that month (recommended in his Signpost ...