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Not content with trashing one treasured website this year, Elon Musk has turned his sights on another: Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia founded in 2001, which has become to represent the ...
Tensions are brewing at Wikipedia over the war in Gaza as volunteer editors have launched “edit wars” to manipulate the slant of pages, according to a report.
Wikipedia will be blocked in Muslim-majority Pakistan if the platform fails to take down content deemed to be sacrilegious within 48 hours, the country’s telecoms regulator said.
Wikipedia is changing editing rules on its “Recession” page after a fierce battle between users over its precise definition.Starting on Wednesday, updates from unregistered users or new ...
A chunk of its trillion-dollar valuation is tied to building truly autonomous vehicles and monetizing the technology. The ...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the unblocking of Wikipedia in the country Monday after a panel of ministers called the restriction over sacrilegious content an “unsuitable ...
When a group of armed mercenaries seized a Russian regional capital and began marching toward Moscow in late June, verified information was hard to come by. Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine ...
Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places ...
Planned Parenthood veteran Maryana Iskander will become the new chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, part of a bid to ...
Rosa Prince is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering UK politics and policy. She was formerly an editor and writer at Politico and the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of "Comrade Corbyn" and ...
Chen-Tse Tsai, a research scientist in the artificial intelligence group at Bloomberg, has been working on a problem that seems simple enough: Given a name in a text, find the correct Wikipedia ...
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People ...