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Category: wikipedia
A US teen wrote 27,000 Wikipedia entries in a language they don’t speak
[ad_1] Before Ultach discovered the teen, who had gone by the username AmaryllisGardner, they had been prolific. By 2018, the 19-year-old had written more than 20,000 entries and committed approximately 200,000 edits. They were able to write so much by starting at the age of 12. The majority of entries AmaryllisGardner penned feature the occasional […]
Facebook test adds Wikipedia information to search results
[ad_1] Facebook is testing a new feature that displays factual information from Wikipedia in some search results, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is perhaps an attempt to keep you on Facebook instead of opening a new tab when you want to learn more about a given topic, or could be another effort to fight […]
AI can automatically rewrite outdated text in Wikipedia articles
[ad_1] The machine learning-based system is trained to recognize the differences between a Wikipedia article sentence and a claim sentence with updated facts. If it sees any contradictions between the two sentences, it uses a “neutrality masker” to pinpoint both the contradictory words that need deleting and the ones it absolutely has to keep. After […]
Wikipedia comes back online in Turkey after multi-year ban
[ad_1] However, the decision was reversed in December last year by Turkey’s Constitutional Court — the highest court in the country. The court deemed the ban unconstitutional, and ruled that the restriction violated free speech. Local reports say that access to Wikipedia is now being restored across the country, although some users will be able […]
Wikipedia wins its battle against censorship in Turkey
[ad_1] Turkey censored Wikipedia in April 2017, leveraging a law that allows it to ban any website that is deemed a national security threat. Wikimedia, the site’s parent company, swiftly took action, but lost its push to reverse the court’s decision. The community-driven website has remained inaccessible to Turkish citizens ever since. The ruling was […]
Wikipedia references now include book previews hosted by the Internet Archive
[ad_1] So far, 130,000 references have been linked to 50,000 digitized books that are hosted by the Archive. To see an example of the new digital referencing in action, you can head to the Wikipedia page for Martin Luther King, Jr. If you look at the reference for Adam Fairclough’s book To Redeem the Soul […]
The North Face gamed Wikipedia to boost Google searches
[ad_1] Volunteers have since removed the images or cropped out North Face logos. The company itself has since apologized, acknowledging that its behavior was “inconsistent” with Wikipedia’s goals. It has ended the marketing campaign and vowed that teams and vendors would be “better trained” on Wikipedia’s policies. The incident underscores both the advantages and pitfalls […]
After Math: Goodbye, Grumpy Cat, whoa oh oh
[ad_1] Terrible news, everyone! The internet's favorite maladjusted kitteh has gone to the Great Cat Tree in the sky after succumbing to a urinary tract infection earlier this week. She — yes, Grumpy Cat was a girl — will be missed. Likewise, Cray Superco… [ad_2] Source link
China is blocking Wikipedia in every language
[ad_1] It’s not certain exactly why China decided to block other languages, but the move comes just weeks before the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, which culminated in a violent government crackdown. China typically blocks access to specific web pages referencing the tragedy, but it can’t do that on Wikipedia after the site […]