Tag: Wikipedia
In Saudi Arabia, Wikipedia editors imprisoned
Two Saudi administrators of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia have been sentenced to 8 and 32 years in prison, Middle East human rights organizations say DAWN and SMEX, Thursday, January 5.…
Elon Musk slips up about Wikipedia … and sinks a little more into conspiracy
Samir Rahmoun December 20, 2022 at 12:40 p.m. 76 © Kiichiro Sato / AP Elon Musk has now found a new target. And it is the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia that…
Russia: two million rubles fine for Wikipedia for articles on Ukraine
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced the parent company of the online participatory encyclopedia Wikipedia to a fine of two million rubles for two articles on the offensive against Ukraine,…
Multilingual encyclopedia: express translations in Wikipedia for Rishi Sunak
Beginning of the French Wikipedia article on Rishi Sunak (screenshot) The all-out crisis in Great Britain has caused it to break several records: the shortest presence at 10 Downing Street…
The Wikipedia page on the war in Ukraine has been manipulated in favor of Russia
The English-language version of the online encyclopedia has been hit by a campaign of misinformation and manipulation, researchers say. The target: the article on the war between Russia and Ukraine.…
In Wikipedia, a record attendance for Elizabeth II
Partial view of the beginning of the English Wikipedia article, “Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II” There are events that resound across the whole planet and consequently in Wikipedia,…
Wikipedia, Twitter: the death of Elizabeth II stirs the Web
Alexander Boero September 09, 2022 at 1:15 p.m. 28 © Shaun Jeffers/Shutterstock The disappearance of Queen Elizabeth II has shaken the entire Web, with abundant traffic on Wikipedia and a…
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has led to colossal traffic on Wikipedia
The disappearance of the Queen of the United Kingdom on September 8, 2022 generated extraordinary traffic on Wikipedia, as with every major event. The death of Elizabeth II tripled the…
An AI from Meta (Facebook) will “fact-check”… Wikipedia
Vincent Mannessier August 29, 2022 at 12:50 p.m. 7 © Fotolia Meta has announced that it is developing an artificial intelligence model capable of fact checker Wikipedia. Although the argument…
Teaching Wikipedia and related projects: a wikimedian in residence in Auvergne
(Former) library of Bishop Massillon (Clermont-Ferrand). Photo: Local History and Art Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) / Wikimedia Commons / CC by-sa A year ago, in July 2021, the Wikimedia France association, which…
Prince Louis: this unlikely photo chosen for his official Wikipedia page
The young Prince Louis has been talked about a lot lately, especially following the photos taken during the Platinum Jubilee of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. But it’s not the…
Wikipedia: she writes hundreds of fake articles for years without being unmasked
A Chinese housewife has spent years writing fake Wikipedia articles without anyone noticing. It took a writer to take an interest in his writings for the veil to be lifted…