Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2023, 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

• "Wikipedia ha meno bisogno di soldi di quanto si pensi" [Wikipedia needs less money than what we think]. Il Post (in Italian). Italy. January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 22, 2023. Questa discrepanza tra il tono allarmista e un po' ricattatorio delle raccolte fondi e la situazione economica della Wikimedia Foundation mette da tempo a disagio alcuni dei volontari che lavorano gratuitamente alla stesura dell'enciclopedia creando nuove voci, modificando e ampliando quelle già esistenti, e controllando che le informazioni che contengono siano basate su fonti credibili. E ha portato, quest'anno, a una discussione accesissima e durata un mese – dal 25 ottobre al 24 novembre – che è finita con un cambiamento netto nel tono dell'ultima raccolta fondi, che ora trasmette un'idea più realistica del quadro finanziario di Wikipedia. [For a long time, this discrepancy between the alarmist and slightly "blackmail-ish" tone of the fundraising banners and the Wikimedia Foundation's economic status has made uncomfortable some of the volunteers that work on the development of the encyclopedia by creating new pages, editing and expanding the already existent ones, and verifying that the information included in them is based on reliable sources. And this year, (the same discrepancy) has led to an extremely heated discussion that lasted a month - from 25 October to 24 November - and ended up with clear changes in the tone of the latest fundraising campaign, which now conveys a more realistic idea of Wikipedia's economic framework.]

• Čiapaitė, Justina; Lyskoit, Violeta (January 3, 2023). "106 Funny Wikipedia Edits Internet Vandals Snuck Into Wiki Articles". Bored Panda. Retrieved January 4, 2023. However, as commonly said, once something is up on the internet, it's held in cyberspace forever. Thus, thanks to the invention of screenshots and Wikipedia's extensive collection of version history, the many funny Wikipedia edits are saved and documented, and trolling Wikipedia moments never go unnoticed or forgotten.

• "Saudi Arabia: Government Agents Infiltrate Wikipedia, Sentence Independent Wikipedia Administrators to Prison". Democracy for the Arab World Now. January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 6, 2023. It's despicable but entirely predictable that the Saudi government has prosecuted Saudis merely for posting content about the government's human rights abuses," said Raed Jarrar, DAWN's advocacy director. "But Wikimedia also needs to take responsibility for the fact that its authorized editors are today languishing in prison for work they did on Wikipedia pages.

• "Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia staff in 'bid to control content'". The Guardian. January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 6, 2023. An investigation by parent body Wikimedia found the Saudi government had penetrated Wikipedia's senior ranks in the region, with Saudi citizens acting or forced to act as agents, two rights groups said.

• "Saudi Arabia government 'infiltrates' Wikipedia and jails two staff to 'control narrative'". Euronews. January 6, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2023. The NGOs said they had evidence of Wikipedia's penetration by the Saudi government based on interviews with sources close to the website and the imprisoned administrators.

• Gardner, Frank (January 7, 2023). "Wikipedia owner denies Saudi infiltration claim". BBC. Retrieved January 8, 2023. Citing "sources with knowledge of Wikimedia's operations", Smex and Dawn said at least one of the 16 were Saudi users, serving as agents for the government to "promote positive content about the government and delete content critical of the government". Wikimedia said this is "unlikely to be the case", adding that some users "who may have been Saudi" were among those banned.
• "The Cochrane-Wikipedia Partnership in 2023". Cochrane. January 10, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023. Cochrane partnered in 2014 with Wikipedia, with the joint goal of improving the quality and reliability of human health-related articles that people are accessing online.

• Harrison, Stephen (January 12, 2023). "Should ChatGPT Be Used to Write Wikipedia Articles?". Slate Magazine. Retrieved January 12, 2023. But now Wikipedians are engaged in a heated debate about whether ChatGPT should be allowed for drafting articles. Ready or not, Wikipedians must answer the question of whether to allow generative artificial intelligence to cross the great encyclopedic threshold.
• Ro, Crystal (January 10, 2023). "People Shared Some Very Interesting, Dark, And Cool Wikipedia "Facts" That I Think You're Gonna Enjoy". BuzzFeed. Retrieved January 17, 2023. In case you didn't know, there's an entire subreddit dedicated to Wikipedia.
• Colussi, Mary (January 13, 2023). "11 Fascinating Royal Wikipedia Pages To Peruse Once You've Finished Reading (Or Reading About) Prince Harry's Memoir". BuzzFeed. Retrieved January 17, 2023. As a weird information enthusiast and a Wikipedia aficionado, I've found 11 fascinating royal articles for you to peruse the next time you need to scratch that strange history itch.
• "Businessman: Wikipedia must be responsible for slander published there". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 17, 2023. Chairman of the board of NGO Wikimedia Estonia and Wikipedia administrator Ivo Kruusamägi referred to Pruunsild's statement of claim as noteworthy as it constitutes the first time Estonian Wikipedia has been taken to court. ... It is not yet clear whether the court will accept the action or when.
• Vallance, Chris (January 17, 2023). "Wikipedia needs different safety rules, says foundation". BBC. Retrieved January 17, 2023. Ms MacKinnon says it has caught in a net designed for the likes of Facebook and Instagram where decisions are centralised. The foundation believes in community decision making, and does not get involved with the articles, she says, but the bill could force it to intervene if a volunteer editor kept up an article which might break UK law, for example. "It forces the foundation to break the community model, and proactively take things down," she says.
• KM, Ashok (January 17, 2023). "'Wikipedia Not Completely Dependable' : Supreme Court Cautions Courts & Adjudicating Authorities". Live Law. Retrieved January 24, 2023. In a judgment delivered today, the Supreme Court cautioned the courts and adjudicating authorities against use of 'wikipedia' for legal dispute resolution.
• "From Infiltrating Wikipedia to Paying Trump Millions in Golf Deals, Saudis Whitewash Rights Record". Democracy Now!. January 17, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2023. Meanwhile, an exposé has revealed that the Saudi government infiltrated Wikipedia to control information on the kingdom.
• Rauwerda, Annie (January 18, 2023). "Wikipedia's Redesign Is Barely Noticeable. That's the Point". Slate. Retrieved January 19, 2023. For all the hype, Vector 2022 isn't dramatically different—that's why it shares a name with the previous skin, Vector 2010. All the scaffolding is the same: Wikipedia is still Wikipedia, just with more whitespace, a more prominent search bar and language switcher, and a sticky table of contents.
• Perez, Sarah (January 18, 2023). "Wikipedia gets its first makeover in over a decade… and it's fairly subtle". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 19, 2023. Given the size of Wikipedia's readership, it's clear the organization was careful not to make disruptive changes. Today, Wikipedia offers over 58 million articles across more than 300 languages, which are viewed nearly 16 billion times every month, it said. The announcement also noted that no existing functionality was removed as a part of these changes — instead, the focus of the update was on usability improvements and modernizing the site.
• Kan, Michael (January 18, 2023). "Wikipedia Desktop Site Gets New Look, Its First in Over 10 Years". PCMag. Retrieved January 19, 2023. As you can see, the redesign reduces some of the clutter on the site for a cleaner look, which includes more white space. The search bar is also prominently featured at the top-center of the page, moving it from the top-right corner. In addition, the search bar will generate a preview image and description as you type in your query. In contrast, the old search bar would only try to autocomplete your query with some text.
• Pearl, Mike (January 18, 2023). "Yes, Wikipedia looks weird. Don't freak out". Mashable. Retrieved January 20, 2023. Perhaps your brain rejected all the new white space, or the way the "sticky" new table of contents hovers while you scroll. But also maybe you just hate change. There's no right way to react to a thing happening on the internet, so whining and nitpicking, along with inexplicable fear, are to be expected at a time like this.
• "Wikipedia gets a facelift after 10 years: A look at new interface and features". The Indian Express. January 19, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2023. The new updated interface emphasises on usability and ease of sharing knowledge. The latest update has been rolled out on English Wikipedia and according to the platform it is operational on 94 per cent of the 318 language versions of the portal for all desktop users.
• "Awesome! Wikipedia gets its first makeover in 10 years; Check new features now". Hindustan Times. January 19, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2023. The new interface also improves the reading experience for the user. Wikipedia articles will now have a maximum line width which means the paragraphs will appear less cluttered and it will make for a comfortable reading.

• Cohen, Noam (January 22, 2023). "The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 22, 2023. But in recent years, something has begun to change. Wikipedia's editors are no longer simply citing dated sources; instead, they are hashing out how someone would want to be understood. But even though these deliberations touch on some of the most controversial issues around—and reach conclusions that reverberate far beyond Wikipedia's pages—they are shockingly civil and thoughtful for the internet today.
• "Wikipedia Middle East editors ban shows risks for creators". Bangkok Post. January 26, 2023. Retrieved January 26, 2023. Beirut-based digital rights group SMEX and human rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) said that Saudi authorities had recruited Wikipedia's most reputed administrators in the country to control information about the kingdom.

February

• "PTA degrades Wikipedia services for not blocking 'sacrilegious content'". The Express Tribune. February 1, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023. "The restoration of the services of Wikipedia will be reconsidered subject to blocking/removal of the reported unlawful contents. PTA is committed to ensuring a safe online experience for all Pakistani citizens according to local laws," it further said.
• "Pakistan restricts access 'internet's encyclopedia' Wikipedia for 'unlawful conent'". Samaa TV. February 1, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023. PTA said Wikipedia may face a permanent block in Pakistan if the platform does not remove or block unlawful content as directed by PTA. However, it has been clarified that PTA will consider removing restrictions on Wikipedia only after compliance with PTA's directions.
• Keeler, Kyle (February 2, 2023). "How Wikipedia Erases Indigenous History". Slate. Retrieved February 6, 2023. Until Wikipedia accurately challenges colonial erasure and stops repeating colonial fantasies, we should be skeptical of the stories it tells us. We must be honest about the past. The future depends on it.
• Sabir Mir, Zainab (February 1, 2023). "Pakistan warns of blocking Wikipedia over non-removal of 'sacrilegious content'". Geo TV. Retrieved February 2, 2023. "It must be noted that were it the case of spreading hate or inciting violence, a ban would make sense, but since this is not the case and it's just a few articles the move is excessively counter-productive. You can ban information, but the move ended up proving bad for the country's image," Baig, the founder of Media Matters for Democracy, said.
• Singh, Manish (February 1, 2023). "Pakistan 'degrades' Wikipedia, warns of complete block over 'sacrilegious' content". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2023. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the nation's telecom regulator, said Wednesday afternoon that it had approached Wikipedia to block or remove certain "blasphemous" content by issuing court orders, but said the online encyclopedia neither complied nor appeared before the authority. ... The regulator did not elaborate on what content it had asked Wikipedia to remove.
• Heady, Taylor Alexis (February 1, 2023). "TikTok User Claims He Uploads the Worst Photos Ever Taken of Celebrities to Their Wikipedias". Popcrush. Retrieved February 2, 2023. Why? He claims it's "because Wikipedia is a place for knowledge, not for looking sexy."
• David, Pride (February 1, 2023). "Wikipedia: the good, the bad and the ugly". Poynter Institute. Retrieved February 2, 2023. Based on the research we've reviewed, we can rate Wikipedia as "Mostly Legit." While it may not be 100% reliable, Wikipedia's collaborative team, editing rules and content policies make it reasonably reliable — in fact, at least as reliable as its competitor, the Encyclopedia Britannica.

• Bell, Torsten (February 4, 2023). "It's so easy to cheat with technology that even judges are doing it – Everyone uses Wikipedia, but should it really be affecting what happens in court?". The Guardian. Retrieved February 5, 2023. But pesky academics have got judges bang to rights, showing that fiddling around with Wikipedia can materially affect legal proceedings. Their research found that not only were Irish supreme court decisions with Wikipedia pages more likely to be cited by high court judges as a precedent for their judgments, but the Wikipedia text even influenced the language used in those judgments. Poor judges, caught redhanded.
• "Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over 'sacrilegious' content". Deutsche Welle. February 4, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023. The regulator's decision triggered an outcry, and free speech campaigners have highlighted a pattern of rising government censorship of Pakistan's printed and electronic media.
• Gul, Ayaz (February 4, 2023). "Pakistan Bans Wikipedia Over 'Sacrilegious Content'". Voice of America. Retrieved February 6, 2023. The ban on Wikipedia drew criticism from Pakistani social media activists and users, demanding the government review the decision and denouncing it as "regressive" and "harmful" for the country's global image.
• "Pakistan blocks Wikipedia: Report". The Indian Express. February 4, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023. Given the intentional failure on part of the platform to comply with the directions of PTA, the services of Wikipedia were degraded for 48 hours with the direction to block/remove the reported contents. The restoration of Wikipedia's services will be reconsidered if the reported unlawful content is blocked/removed, the spokesman said.
• Zaccaro, Maria (February 4, 2023). "Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'". BBC. Retrieved February 6, 2023. PTA spokesperson Malahat Obaid said Wikipedia failed to respond to "repeated correspondence" over the removal of "blasphemous content". "They did remove some of the material but not all," he added, confirming that the website would remain blocked until "all the objectionable material" was removed.
• Ahmed, Munir (February 6, 2023). "Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, says it hurt Muslim sentiments". Associated Press. Retrieved February 6, 2023. The Lahore-based Digital Rights Foundation earlier called the Wikipedia ban an affront to Pakistanis' right to access information and a mockery of the country's commitment to uphold its human rights obligations.
• Singh, Manish (February 6, 2023). "Wikipedia unblocked in Pakistan after Prime Minister's intervention". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 9, 2023. Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, directed the unblocking order, calling the censorship on Wikipedia "not a suitable measure to restrict access to some objectionable contents/sacrilegious matter on it." "The unintended consequences of this blanket ban, therefore, outweigh its benefits," his office wrote in a letter, which was shared publicly on Twitter.
• Ahmed, Munir (February 7, 2023). "Wikipedia Unblocked in Pakistan After Being Banned for 'Blasphemous' Content". Time. Retrieved February 8, 2023. Hours later, Pakistan's Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said that premier Shahbaz Sharif had ordered the immediate restoration of Wikipedia, a move welcomed by Pakistanis.
• Andrei, Mihai (February 7, 2023). "Wikipedia is 21 and it shapes the world. But how reliable is it?". ZME Science. Retrieved February 8, 2023. In conclusion, Wikipedia can be a valuable source for information, but you should use it with caution, and it's always a good idea to cross-check information with external sources, and be aware of the potential for bias and inaccuracies.
• "Pakistan PM orders to unblock Wikipedia website". Deccan Herald. February 7, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023. Minister of Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb posted the order to her Twitter account, which stated: "The Prime Minister is pleased to direct that the website (Wikipedia) may be restored with immediate effect."
• Aamir, Adnan (February 7, 2023). "Pakistan bans, then unblocks, Wikipedia amid digital freedom fight". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved April 1, 2023. The brief Wikipedia blockage prompted a warning from the National Commission for Human Rights, which termed the site an essential part of the digital information landscape in Pakistan. The ban, it said, violated citizens' right to access information.
• Hussain, Abid (February 8, 2023). "Wikipedia ban in Pakistan over alleged blasphemous content lifted". Al Jazeera. Retrieved April 11, 2023. On February 1, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced it was "degrading" access to Wikipedia in the country due to the presence of "sacrilegious content", giving the website 48 hours to remove them. It did not specify which content it found sacrilegious. Two days later, the PTA claimed there was no response from Wikipedia and blocked the website, leading to widespread condemnation and outrage in the country.
• Carolan, Mary (February 8, 2023). "Judges and academics in fresh row over research claiming Wikipedia used for judgments". The Irish Times. Retrieved February 8, 2023. Following the release in recent weeks of an amended version of the paper, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys told The Irish Times that the "extensive" changes suggest the core conclusion in the original paper was "problematical".
• Bindman, Dan (February 8, 2023). "Wikipedia information "undermining quality of judgments"". legalfutures. Retrieved February 9, 2023. The researchers believed only judges of the High Court, or their staff – rather than appeal or supreme courts – were using Wikipedia articles for their research. They highlighted pressure of work on High Court judges as a possible cause of the difference.
• Eichner, Itamar (February 12, 2023). "Wikipedia 'intentionally' distorts history of the Holocaust, study claims". Ynet. Retrieved February 13, 2023. "Due to this group's zealous handiwork, Wikipedia's articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggerate the Poles' role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles, blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis," Prof. Grabowski wrote.
• "Research Reveals Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". Chapman University. February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 13, 2023 – via San Diego Jewish World. The paper, "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust" published today in The Journal of Holocaust Research.
• "Wikipedia ban shows "inconsistent attempts by Pakistani authorities to restrict internet access": Report". Asian News International. February 12, 2023. Retrieved February 15, 2023 – via ThePrint. The ban on Wikipedia suggests that "Islamist groups and their radical ideologies continue to hold considerable sway in Pakistan, particularly on the matter of blasphemy, irrespective of which political party holds power in Islamabad," Al Arabiya Post reported. The allegations of blasphemy offence often lead to mob violence and attacks in Pakistan.
• Harrison, Stephen (February 13, 2023). "Why Wikipedia Is So Tough on Bigfoot". Slate. Retrieved February 15, 2023. The internet encyclopedia defines cryptozoology as "a pseudoscience or subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals" such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the chupacabra, and other so-called cryptids. But on the talk page that sits behind the wiki article, some users are up in arms about that specific wording.
• Aderet, Ofer (February 14, 2023). "'Jews Helped the Germans Out of Revenge or Greed': New Research Documents How Wikipedia Distorts the Holocaust". Haaretz. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Grabowski and Klein's study did not find a link between the government or any other official authority in Poland and the manner in which the Wikipedia articles were edited. Nevertheless, Grabowski and Klein cite an email exchange leaked last year that indicates that Polish officials at the highest level were aware of Wikipedia's influence on public discourse and its impact in shaping the memory of the Holocaust.
• Konieczny, Piotr (February 15, 2023). "My, wolontariusze Wikipedii, nie jesteśmy opłacani przez PiS, KGB czy Mosad" [We, Wikipedia volunteers, are not paid by PiS, KGB or Mossad]. Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved February 17, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] I could go on, but why? The trend of errors and understatements in the article I refer to is probably quite clear. Unfortunately, this is what happens when, on a daily basis, reliable researchers take up a field (here: new media - Wikipedia) in which they are not experts, and what is worse - they base their research on a very unreliable source, which is a former Wikipedia volunteer with the pseudonym "Icewhiz".
• Siddiqui, Zuha (February 20, 2023). "Pakistan's three-day Wikipedia ban sends a "dangerous" message". Rest of World. Retrieved February 22, 2023. Wikipedia ban was reversed within 72 hours, Pakistani tech investors and activists told Rest of World that such a move sends a "dangerous" message to the world, and could drive away foreign investors or multinational companies.
• "Over 40 later banned sockpuppets created or revised nine related articles on the Adani family and businesses, says Wikipedia". Press Trust of India. February 21, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023 – via The Hindu. Wikipedia said billionaires have a history of apparent undeclared paid editing on Wikipedia, including Kenneth C. Griffin, Robert T. Brockman, Robert F. Smith, and several Russian oligarchs. A few near- or former-billionaires, including Elizabeth Holmes, Greg Lindberg, Jeffrey Epstein, and Peter Nygard have also appeared to hire people for undeclared paid editing, it said.
• "Paid Users, Including Employees, Improperly Edited Adani Articles, Says Wikipedia Newspaper". The Wire (India). February 21, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023. Citing that the company lost about $67 billion in net worth, the article asks, "Did he and his employees also try to "con" Wikipedia readers with non-neutral PR versions of related Wikipedia articles? Almost certainly they did."
• Chung, Andrew (February 21, 2023). "U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance". Reuters. Retrieved February 22, 2023. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Wikimedia Foundation sued in 2015 challenging the legality of the NSA's "Upstream" surveillance of foreign targets through the "suspicionless" collection and searching of internet traffic on data transmission lines flowing into and out of the United States.
• Williams, Chris (February 21, 2023). "The Supreme Court Just Prevented One Of The Most High Stakes Encyclopedia Battles Ever From Happening". Above the Law. Retrieved February 22, 2023. You know things have to be spectacularly bad when the librarians of the internet think something is worth going to court over.
• "Adani Group used paid editors to 'clean' its Wikipedia entries: Report". The Siasat Daily. February 21, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023. "Many of them edited several of the articles and added non-neutral material or puffery. A declared paid editor, using a company IP address, completely rewrote the Adani Group article. Others removed warnings about conflict-of-interest editing. Some created articles by unusual methods that avoided Wikipedia's quality control systems," the report says.
• "Fresh blow to Adani after Wikipedia claims entries on group manipulated". Business Standard. February 23, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023. In its report, The Signpost alleged that over 40 sock puppets or undeclared paid editors created or revised 9 articles on the Adani family and their businesses. Some of edits on Adani were by company employees, the internet-based encylopedia alleged, listing IP addresses that edited information on Adani, his wife Priti, son Karan, nephew Pranav and group companies.
• Ro, Crystal (February 25, 2023). "19 Jaw-Dropping Celebrity "Facts" People Learned After Reading Their Wikipedia Pages". BuzzFeed. Retrieved March 1, 2023. BTW, this should probably go without saying, but because this information all comes from Wikipedia, take it with a grain of salt, ya know?
• Corfield, Gareth (February 25, 2023). "Wikipedia is not woke, insists founder Jimmy Wales". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 16, 2023. However, Wikipedia itself is often a lightning rod for criticism because of its stance on the big issues of the day – or, more accurately, the stance of its legions of editors, who critics routinely label as armchair keyboard warriors with a left-wing viewpoint that colours everything they write. ... Wales, the man who adorns the adverts, may resist accusations that his creation is "woke". But as long as it is where the public goes for information, the controversies over the site – and who is in control of its content – will never go away.
• "Russian court fines Wikipedia over military 'misinformation'". Reuters. February 28, 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2023. The organisation said it may appeal the ruling but that it had not yet made a decision.
• Elia-Shalev, Asaf (February 28, 2023). "Wikipedia's 'Supreme Court' tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved March 3, 2023. Normally, mistakes on Wikipedia, whether intentional or not, can be quickly fixed by experienced editors who deploy a set of rules regarding sourcing and style. But in this case, the alleged distortionists know Wikipedia's mechanisms well enough to at least appear to follow the rules and are willing to spend time arguing with other editors who step in to intervene.

March

• Anon (March 1, 2023). "Who watches the Wikipedia editors?". The Critic (modern magazine). Retrieved March 1, 2023. As it turned out, there are plenty of weirdos — and "weirdo" is an apt description for most regular Wikipedia editors — who were keen to spend long hours editing an online encyclopaedia for no fee and no credit.
• Villena, Cole (March 1, 2023). "Depths of Wikipedia's Annie Rauwerda Is Obsessed With Accessible Information". Nashville Scene. Retrieved March 1, 2023. The editing community is really inspiring to me, because it's all these very, very smart people who can't handle information being incomplete or wrong, and so they get addicted to creating the encyclopedia together," Rauwerda says. "It's really wholesome people who expect nothing and just care so much.
• Richardson, Anna (March 1, 2023). "Politics in Latin America Class Takes on Wikipedia". Hamilton College. Retrieved March 2, 2023. "Students loved being able to see how many people read the article after they made edits. Many talked about how usually, when [they] write a paper, nobody else sees it, but on Wikipedia, all these other people got to look at [their] work," Sullivan explained.
• Fuhrer, Armin (March 2, 2023). "Historiker erkennen auf Wikipedia »Holocaust-Verzerrung«" [Historians Recognize “Holocaust Distortion” on Wikipedia]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Jan Grabowksi observes: "Since the publication of our article, there has been a lot of paraphrasing activity on Wikipedia," he told SPIEGEL. "Some items we mentioned are now being rewritten, and some others may not be visible at all."
• Sidman, Fern (March 2, 2023). "Conspiracy to Falsify Facts About the Holocaust by Polish Editors for Wikipedia Being Investigated by Top Brass". Jewish Voice. Retrieved March 11, 2023. Typically, disputes among Wikipedia editors are resolved through community consensus mechanisms, but occasionally those mechanisms fail and allegations are brought to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, a panel of elected editors known as Wikipedia's Supreme Court.
• Domagała-Pereira, Katarzyna (March 3, 2023). "Der Spiegel o fałszowaniu historii Holokaustu w Wikipedii" [Der Spiegel on Wikipedia's falsification of the Holocaust story]. Deutsche Welle (in Polish). Retrieved March 11, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Der Spiegel reports that Grabowski and Klein refer to figures of about 2 million murdered non-Jewish Poles and 3 million Polish Jews. However, a group of Polish Wikipedia authors claim that the number of murdered non-Jewish Poles was 3 million, reports the German magazine.
• "The Wikipedia dilemma". The Nation (Pakistan). March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023. Recently, Pakistan banned Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia over some blasphemous material. It is a matter of fact that Pakistan has been quite serious about such content but on the other hand, the free site of information has surely been a blessing for the state.
• Tunk, Carola (March 6, 2023). "Forscher: Wikipedia-Gruppe „verzerrt" absichtlich Holocaust-Geschichte in Polen" [Researcher: Wikipedia group intentionally 'distorting' Holocaust history in Poland]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Who is responsible for the intentional falsification of history on Wikipedia? I don't know these people, so I don't know who they are. We have no evidence, but it is likely that these people are motivated by ideological motives. According to a certain methodology that has been seen left and right in Poland, namely that our past is glorious, we are not to blame and so on. We have no evidence that this small group of people doing what we write about is in any way connected to the Polish government - but they are doing exactly what the Polish government would like to see.
• "Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?". Evening Standard. March 7, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023. Aversion to conflict and an impression of the site's community as misogynistic were both cited as reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, by former Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner.
• Olbert, Frank (March 11, 2023). "Verzerrte Enzyklopädie: Wie auf Wikipedia versucht wird, Polens Rolle in der Schoa reinzuwaschen" [Distorted Encyclopedia: How Wikipedia tries to whitewash Poland's role in the Shoah]. Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved March 11, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] In their conclusion, Grabowski and Klein urge the administrators and the Wikipedia Foundation to pay more attention to the contributions on the platform. A reference could be the Croatian Wikipedia, which had been hijacked by right-wing agitators, but was recaptured and improved following the intervention of the foundation and the community mobilized by it.
• "Wikipedia denies political bias despite censoring marriage supporters". Christian Institute. March 11, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023. When referring to individuals who claim to be the opposite sex, Wikipedia's style guide pushes editors to use words that "reflect the person's most recent expressed gender self-identification". It also prevents editors from mentioning a person's name associated with their biological sex, even in quotations, if they were not "notable" under that name.
• Grinzweig Jacobsson, Anna (March 12, 2023). "Fler borde ifrågasätta Wikipedias Förintelsefakta" [More people should question Wikipedia's Holocaust facts]. Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved March 12, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] The report was released on February 10, quickly spread widely and has attracted attention also in Wikipedia groups, where they have already begun to correct certain factual errors that the two researchers drew attention to. It has also been pointed out that a similar systematic falsification work is going on at Wikipedia when it comes to information about global warming.
• "Wikipedias forfalskning av historien om Holocaust" [Wikipedia's falsification of the history of the Holocaust]. Norge Idag (in Norwegian). March 17, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] But Wikipedia takes the accusations seriously. The Arbitration Committee, or ArbCom, decided to look into the claims without receiving a formal request. No one can remember the committee taking such a step during the nearly two decades of its existence.
• Alt Miller, Yvette (March 19, 2023). "Wikipedia Editors Deliberately Distorted Holocaust Articles". Aish HaTorah. Retrieved March 19, 2023. These revelations about Wikipedia's Holocaust coverage come in the context of growing ignorance about the Holocaust around the world. One recent survey found that 63% of Americans do not know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
• Retzloff, Bridget; Kelly, Katy (March 20, 2023). "Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it". The Conversation. Retrieved March 20, 2023. Here are what we see as the main pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia as a source of information in their research and assignments, though anyone can consider these tips when using Wikipedia.
• "Making Wikipedia Safer: Enforcement Guidelines for Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct provide a model for governing online behavior". Asian News International. March 23, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023. While user behavior policies have long existed on the site, there has been no universal standard for acceptable behavior across all Wikimedia projects.
• Cadorniga, Carlos "Callie" (March 25, 2023). "New Streamer's Wikipedia Page Has Empty "Controversy" Section Just In Case". Hard Drive. Retrieved March 26, 2023. These things are just inevitable; might as well save some time now," said Wikipedia editor Bryan Jobs. "He hasn't done anything at all wrong yet, but it's only a matter of time. I know you're probably thinking 'but this streamer just plays Mario games with his friends, how could he possibly do something insanely problematic?' Give it a week.
• Norberg, Sara (March 27, 2023). "Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap, One Edit at a Time". Tufts Now. Retrieved March 31, 2023. From an informational perspective, it's important to get the right information, and it's our responsibility, if we change it, to do that," said Ray Feinleib, A25, who is majoring in English. "I'm excited to contribute, even if it's just a small edit. Knowing that someone will be better informed because of the change is a good feeling.
• Kirkpatrick, David D. (March 27, 2023). "The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 4, 2023. To pressure others to shun Lord Energy, Alp added dubious allegations about the company to the Wikipedia entries for Credit Suisse and for an Algerian oil monopoly.
• Germain, Thomas (March 29, 2023). "Listen to Wikipedia's Cute New Sound Logo". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 30, 2023. The winning sound features recordings of pages turning in a book, mouse clicks, and keyboard taps over a bed of warm synthesizer tones.
• Porter, Jon (March 29, 2023). "Prepare your ears for Wikipedia's 'sound of all human knowledge'". The Verge. Retrieved March 30, 2023. With more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called "sound logo" for Wikipedia and its other projects.
• Hollender, Alex (March 30, 2023). "Take a peek behind the process of redesigning Wikipedia's desktop interface". Fast Company. Retrieved March 30, 2023. With this in mind it becomes clear that any Wikipedia article is only as accurate as the sources from which the facts were gathered. You can of course question the motives or skill level of the editors, who are the ones going out, gathering the facts, and then weaving them together into coherent articles.
• Hunt, Simon (March 30, 2023). "Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it". Evening Standard. Retrieved March 30, 2023. "The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I've seen so far is…people are cautious in the sense that we're aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because there seems like there's a lot of possibility here," Wales said.
• Gunn, Aidan (March 30, 2023). "Students, faculty learn to edit Wikipedia articles". Campus Current. Retrieved March 31, 2023. "I hope that it's empowering," The event's organizer, Reverdy, said. "[I hope] that [the event] encourages folks to get involved with something that they feel upset about or passionate about, and that they want to contribute to or make a difference in. Because there's so many opportunities to do that."
• Munsell, Mike (March 31, 2023). "Wikipedia has a climatetech problem". RMI (energy organization). Retrieved April 1, 2023. That's where you come in. Canary readers include some of the smartest, most knowledgeable climatetech professionals out there, and I'm going to nudge you all to try your hand at honing Wikipedia pages related to climate, especially ones that cover advancements in clean energy and climate solutions.

April

• Saeed, Ramna (April 4, 2023). "Pakistan's recent Wikipedia ban sparks controversy over blasphemy laws and freedom of speech". Global Voices. Retrieved April 4, 2023. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced a committee to investigate the incident and suggest alternative technical methods for removing or restricting access to objectionable content posted on sites such as Wikipedia. This action was taken in consideration of social, cultural, and religious sensitivities in Pakistan.
• Harrison, Stephen (April 5, 2023). "Wikipedia's "Supreme Court" to Review Polish-Jewish History During WWII". Slate. Retrieved April 6, 2023. New Wikipedians have taken an interest in this subject matter, contributors from outside of what one user described as the "usual cartels." That's the hope: Once an issue has been spotlighted by the outside world, Wikipedians are capable of handling it themselves.
• McKeown, Jonah (April 8, 2023). "Wikipedia had the wrong Vatican City flag for years. Now incorrect flags are everywhere". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved April 9, 2023. "That's kind of common with other countries too, especially those that don't really take pains to standardize their design. [Nowadays] a flagmaker is likely to go to a source like Wikipedia, and it may vary in its accuracy," Becker told CNA.
• "Is Wikipedia Next?". Russian Life. April 9, 2023. Retrieved April 10, 2023. Roskomnadzor, the federal service that supervises communications in Russia, recently ordered the deletion of 133 Wikipedia pages, claiming the website was anti-Russian and "fake news" for publishing articles containing facts about the war in Ukraine. Now, government and judiciary officials are discussing a possible ban on the online encyclopedia.
• "Russia Fines Wikipedia Owner Over 'Fake Information' About Ukraine Invasion". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2023. Wikimedia has previously said information that Russian authorities have complained about was well-sourced and in line with Wikipedia standards.
• "Russian court fines Wikipedia for article about Ukraine war". ABC News. April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2023. Tass said Roskomnadzor will label Wikimedia in search engines as a violator of Russian law, and more action against specific articles is planned.
• Chernova, Anna; Dmitracova, Olesya (April 14, 2023). "Russian court fines Wikipedia owner for article related to Ukraine invasion". CNN. Retrieved April 19, 2023. There have been debates in Russia about banning Wikipedia. Asked about the possibility of shutting down the website in the country, the Kremlin said last week that a Russian alternative needed to be developed first.
• Yusuf, Hosea (April 17, 2023). "Wikipedia To Bridge Digital Gap Between Teachers, Students". Leadership. Retrieved April 18, 2023. The teachers were trained on effective usage of Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool, research and retrieval skills, content creation, and evaluation of information.
• Marrow, Alexander (April 18, 2023). "Russia not planning Wikipedia block for now, minister says". Reuters. Retrieved April 19, 2023. Wikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russian since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow sent its armed forces into Ukraine. "We are not blocking Wikipedia yet, there are no such plans for now," Interfax news agency quoted digital affairs minister Maksut Shadaev as saying.
• O'Donnell, Orla (April 18, 2023). "Study claims no 'Wikipedia effect' in rulings by Irish judges". RTÉ.ie. Retrieved April 19, 2023. In the new research, using different methodology, the authors say their comparison showed citations of the cases mentioned on Wikipedia and those in the control group rose by the same amount, meaning, they say, there was no effect whatsoever from the cases being mentioned on Wikipedia.
• Carolan, Mary (April 18, 2023). "New study rejects research suggestions that Wikipedia content shapes High Court judgments". The Irish Times. Retrieved April 19, 2023. Mr Justice David Barniville said those with practical knowledge of judicial decision-making "will know that the claim that judges rely on Wikipedia in preparing their judgments in any material way is plainly wrong".
• Phelan, Shane (April 18, 2023). "Study by judge rejects research suggesting Irish judiciary uses Wikipedia as a source in rulings". Irish Independent. Retrieved April 19, 2023. Mr Justice Ferriter said the Humphreys study confirmed empirically what any High Court judge or barrister or solicitor would have explained if asked: that case law cited in Irish court judgments comes from parties' written or oral submissions and not from Wikipedia.
• "Minister says Russia not planning to block Wikipedia for now". Firstpost. April 19, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2023. A Moscow court fined Wikimedia Foundation, the company that owns Wikipedia, 800,000 roubles ($9,777) on Tuesday for what Russian authorities claimed was a failure to delete content that was seen to be encouraging train hopping, in which a person rides on the side or top of a train.
• "Moscow fines Wikipedia owner $18,000 for Ukraine article - TASS". Reuters. April 20, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2023. Russia has hit the Wikimedia Foundation with a string of fines in recent months, but is "not yet" planning to block the service, the minister of digital affairs said this week.
• Cuenca, Anna (April 20, 2023). "The British physicist making women scientists visible online". Phys.org. Retrieved April 21, 2023. Wade, who is now part of a network of women editors and leads workshops on how to write for Wikipedia, says a person's presence and their work on the internet means they are discoverable.
• Hawkins, Eleanor (April 27, 2023). "Wikipedia's influence grows". Axios. Retrieved April 28, 2023. The content found on Wikipedia is becoming even more important as new generative artificial intelligence tools are being trained on data from the site. ... Editing or updating a Wiki page can be an epic saga of anonymous negotiations — but it can be done, as long as you understand how to appropriately engage with the Wikipedia editor community.
• Ndu-Okeke, Michael (April 27, 2023). "Russian court fines Wikipedia again over Ukraine war article". Peoples Gazette. Retrieved April 28, 2023. The report stated that this is the seventh fine imposed on Wikimedia in 2023, for not removing prohibited information. The fines now total 8.4 million rubles.
• "Russian court fines Wikipedia again for article about war in Ukraine". Reuters. April 27, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023. Wikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russian since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow invaded Ukraine last year.
• "Madras HC Sets Aside Special NIA Court Order That Had Relied on Wikipedia". The Wire (India). April 27, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023. ...it is clear that Hon'ble Supreme Court has put in a caveat and caution against use of such sources (Wikipedia) in legal dispute resolution. Acer India and Hewlett Packard / Lenevo principles make it clear that on this score, the trial Court fell in error i.e., fell in error in relying on Wikipedia and, therefore, the matter has to go back to trial Court...
• "Madras High Court tells courts not to use Wikipedia as source for legal dispute resolution". India Legal. April 27, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023. The Division Bench agreed to the petitioner's claim that the impugned order explicitly relied on Wikipedia to conclude the aim and objective of the entity. It further took note of the fact that the impugned order was silent with respect to the case laws cited by Baqavi and had merely brushed them aside.
• Vallance, Chris; Gerken, Tom (April 28, 2023). "Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks". BBC. Retrieved April 28, 2023. Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the website, says it would "violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors". A senior figure in Wikimedia UK fears the site could be blocked as a result.
• Dhiman, Mehak (April 28, 2023). "Can't Rely on Wikipedia: Madras High Court Remands Case to Trail Court". Law Trend. Retrieved April 28, 2023. High Court referred to the case of Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore Vs. M/s.Acer India Pvt. Ltd. where the Supreme Court held that Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia and information can be entered therein by any person and as such it may not be authentic.
• Milmo, Dan (April 28, 2023). "UK readers may lose access to Wikipedia amid online safety bill requirements". The Guardian. Retrieved April 29, 2023. However, there is also a question mark over whether any of wikipedia's content would meet the definition of pornographic material in the bill.
• Karabus, Jude (April 28, 2023). "Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia". The Register. Retrieved April 30, 2023. In a statement to national UK broadcaster the BBC this morning, Rebecca MacKinnon, vice president of Global Advocacy at Wikimedia, said that to perform such verification would "violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors."
• de Quetteville, Harry (April 28, 2023). "How Wikipedia became too powerful". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved April 30, 2023. This insistence on sourcing is key to understanding Wikipedia's identity: it is not in itself a producer of knowledge, verified and vouchsafed; rather it is a distillation of facts stated elsewhere, with the hope that anonymous, crowd-sourced scrutiny will eject the false and retain the true.
• Matthew, Field (April 28, 2023). "Wikipedia could be taken offline in the UK". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Wikipedia could be shut down for UK internet users under the Online Safety Bill, a charity that helps run the internet encyclopaedia has claimed.
• Wallace, Abby (April 28, 2023). "Wikipedia won't comply with Online Safety Bill if passed, its charity warns". City A.M. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Crompton-Reid said introducing any age checks would "violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors".
• Griffin, Andrew (April 29, 2023). "Wikipedia could soon be banned in UK over upcoming age verification rules". The Independent. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Wikipedia's specific objections come to parts of the bill that require websites that include content that could be harmful to children to include age verification checks. The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, said that it fears that some content – such as educational content about sexuality – could be included in that.
• Solomons, Adam (April 29, 2023). "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says 'Twitter is making Elon Musk stupid' after billionaire's 'left-wing bias' claim". LBC. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Musk tweeted criticism of the site last December amid controversy around Wikipedia editors who considered deleting articles about Hunter Biden's laptop. The Twitter and SpaceX entrepreneur wrote: "Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias."
• Shah, Saqib (April 29, 2023). "Wikipedia refuses to carry out Online Safety Bill age checks". Evening Standard. Retrieved April 30, 2023. However, the government has said that it is unlikely Wikipedia would be classed as a category one service, those that would be subject to the bill's strictest rules.
• Frost, Caroline (April 29, 2023). "Jimmy Wales Says "Reading Too Much Twitter Has Made Elon Musk Stupid"". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 30, 2023. The Wikipedia founder was responding to a recent episode where Musk objected to suggestions of deleting an entry regarding the "Twitter files" (Musk's public release of company documents). While the deletion never happened, for Wales, it was a revealing insight into the Twitter owner's limited understanding.
• Kumar, Suresh (April 30, 2023). "Don't rely on sites like Wikipedia to write verdicts: Madras HC". The Times of India. Retrieved April 30, 2023. However, a division bench of Justice M Sundar and Justice M Nirmal Kumar disapproved of the special court's conclusion and observed that courts must refrain from relying on crowd-sourced websites like Wikipedia in legal dispute resolution.

May

• Woodcock, Claire (May 2, 2023). "AI is Tearing Wikipedia Apart". Vice. Retrieved May 2, 2023. The current draft policy notes that anyone unfamiliar with the risks of large language models should avoid using them to create Wikipedia content, because it can open the Wikimedia Foundation up to libel suits and copyright violations—both of which the nonprofit gets protections from but the Wikipedia volunteers do not.
• Staddon, John (May 2, 2023). "WikiBias: How Wikipedia erases "fringe theories" and enforces conformity". Minding The Campus. Retrieved May 3, 2023. It turns out that the Wikipedia editorial system, organized in a complicated way that I confess I do not fully understand, classifies some positions as fringe: "the theory that a genetic link exists between race and intelligence is enough of a minority viewpoint in the scientific consensus that it falls under Wikipedia's definition of a fringe theory." Fringe theories are to be excluded from Wikipedia, apparently.
• Sharon, K Sherly (May 2, 2023). "Hyderabad: Over 200 attend 3-day Wiki Conference India 2023". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved May 3, 2023. Wikipedia said in a press release that Indian volunteers are integral and valued contributors to the website, which is available in 24 languages spoken across India.
• Stojanovski, Filip (May 11, 2023). "Creative initiatives add new content from Central and South Eastern Europe to Wikipedia". Global Voices. Retrieved June 28, 2023. Since 2020, Wikimedia Polska has been implementing the long-term Wikiszkoła (Wiki-school) program, which uses small grants to engage teachers and students to develop various activities and projects.
• Mayer, Grace (May 15, 2023). "Wikipedia cofounder slams Elon Musk for caving to Turkey's government and censoring tweets, says Wikipedia fought similar demands and won". Business Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2023. From 2017 to 2020, the Turkish government blocked access to Wikipedia after an entry on the website said the country was a sponsor of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups, Insider previously reported.
• Kleinman, Zoe (May 16, 2023). "Twitter wrong to block tweets during Turkey election - Wikipedia founder". BBC News. Retrieved May 19, 2023. Wikipedia and Twitter are clearly very different services - there is no 'tell us what you think' box on the online encyclopedia which Mr Wales said made moderation a lot less complex.
• Elia-Shalev, Asaf (May 22, 2023). "Wikipedia bans editors but sidesteps broader action in Holocaust distortion row". The Times of Israel. Retrieved May 22, 2023. In keeping with Wikipedia's accountability framework and to the dismay of the study's authors, the committee didn't take a position on the underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity with the Nazis. The committee instead concluded that then editors did not adhere to the community's code of conduct.
• ShahBano Ijaz, Syeda (May 29, 2023). "How Conflicts and Population Loss Led to the Rise of English Wikipedia's Credibility". American Political Science Association. Retrieved May 30, 2023. A close examination of the content of selected Wikipedia articles, their publicly available editing history, as well as the comments made by the editors, allows Steinsson to show that a change in the interpretation of Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View (NPOV) guideline affected the nature of content in its articles.
• Stockton, Ben (May 30, 2023). "Cop28 president's team accused of Wikipedia 'greenwashing'". The Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2023. Work by Al Jaber's team on his and the climate summit's Wikipedia entries include adding a quote from an editorial that said Al Jaber – the United Arab Emirates minister for industry and advanced technology – was "precisely the kind of ally the climate movement needs".
• Sforza, Teri (May 30, 2023). "Who's fact-checking Wikipedia editors who distort, misinform?". The Orange County Register. Retrieved May 31, 2023. Punishable by imprisonment of up to three years, as well as a fine, the law aims to protect Poland from 'being slandered as a state and as a nation.' A cadre of colorfully named, and mostly anonymous, editors set to work (the aforementioned Piotrus, Xx236, Volunteer Marek, GizzyCatBella, etc.). It has been an ongoing battle for years, with one step forward and two steps back.
• Pandey, Kamya (May 31, 2023). "The Power of a Wikipedia Page for Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide". Jumpstart. Retrieved June 7, 2023. The one thing that builds trust between your company and its potential customers is having its own Wikipedia page. It is the first thing that shows up when someone looks up your company (besides your website of course!) and gives potential customers all the information they might need about your business. Another major plus point of having a Wikipedia page is that it positively influences the search engine optimization (SEO) ranking of your website. Since the Wiki page has backlinks to the company's website, it makes your company's website show up higher in Google search results.

June

• Tonsing, Suanmuanlian (June 1, 2023). "Manipur & Wikipedia: How Kuki-Zo's Digital Inequity Has Caused a Narrative Shift". The Quint. Retrieved June 5, 2023. Due to the lack of representation worldwide, the distortion of facts and removal of information on Wikipedia pose a serious problem for the tribals in Manipur. There has been a significant increase in the number of viewers on the Wikipedia pages of Hmar, Thadou, Kuki, Paite, and Vaiphei since the outbreak of violence on 2 May 2023.
• "Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - Ifax". Reuters. June 6, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023. Wikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow sent its armed forces into Ukraine.
• Klein, Shira (June 14, 2023). "The shocking truth about Wikipedia's Holocaust disinformation". The Forward. Retrieved June 16, 2023. In theory, anyone can edit Wikipedia; no editor has any ownership over any article. Yet over the years, anyone who tried to fix distortions related to Holocaust disinformation faced a team of fierce editors who guard old lies and produce new ones.
• Smith, Kellie (June 15, 2023). "How to write a Wikipedia page for your charity". Charity Digital. Retrieved June 28, 2023. But creating a Wikipedia page isn't easy. This article explains the strict review process and guides you through the different steps to take to hopefully get your page approved. It's also important to be aware that anyone can add information to and edit Wikipedia pages. This means you would need to regularly monitor your page to make sure its accurate, which can prove time-consuming.
• Fatima, Zoha (June 16, 2023). "People are charmed to learn that Wikipedia editors hang out in a public library once a month". Upworthy. Retrieved June 16, 2023. Viewers were blown away by how wholesome and nice it is that Wikipedia editors have a place to gather every month. They might even receive a few more volunteers to join the meeting.
• Radhakrishnan, Vignesh (June 23, 2023). "Data Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles". The Hindu. Retrieved June 23, 2023. Interestingly, Cebuano, a regional language spoken widely in the Philippines, has the second-highest number of articles in Wikipedia (61,23,197). The Cebuano entries are written in Latin alphabets. However, news reports show that many entries were made in Cebuano by a bot.
• Washington, Robin (June 29, 2023). "To fix Wikipedia's Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names". The Forward. Retrieved July 4, 2023. "Academia must also play its part to keep Wikipedia accurate," Klein continues. "Scholars should uncover Wikipedia's weaknesses and flag them for editors to fix, instead of snubbing Wikipedia as unreliable." While I absolutely understand Holocaust denial as something to be constantly combated, I respectfully disagree. By participating in Wikipedia's laborious processes of review, academics give legitimacy to an inherently flawed enterprise.
• Andaloro, Angelo (June 30, 2023). "20 Wikipedia Pages That Will Absolutely Suck You In For Hours". BuzzFeed. Retrieved July 4, 2023. But today I'm here to talk about Wikipedia, the best rabbit hole in existence. Here are some Wiki pages I bet you're gonna lose some hours to:

July

• Parker, Fiona (July 3, 2023). "Bestselling author Kate Mosse urges budding historians and writers to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia". Daily Mail. Retrieved July 4, 2023. The British novelist claimed that less than a fifth of all biographies on the online encyclopaedia are currently about women.
• Llewelyn, Abbie (July 6, 2023). "Wikipedia could shut down in UK after online safety law passes, Government told". The Independent. Retrieved July 7, 2023. The Liberal Democrat peer said: "There is a material risk that, without further amendment or clarification, then Wikipedia and other similar services may feel they can no longer operate in the United Kingdom."
• "Wikipedia could stop being accessible in the UK due to Online Safety Law". Engineering & Technology. July 7, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2023. The government has been warned that the requirements of the new bill regulating the online world could lead to users losing access to Wikipedia. This is due to fears that the law could lead to "age-gating" the website, which currently does not require age verification.
• Corfield, Gareth (July 12, 2023). "Russia launches Wikipedia rival in new censorship crackdown". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved July 23, 2023. Vladimir Medeyko, the long-serving leader of Wikipedia editors in the country, has copied the website's existing 1.9 million Russian articles into a new Kremlin-approved version. The creation of the new service, called Ruwiki, was announced by a State Duma deputy from Putin's political party.
• Das, Mehul Reuben (July 13, 2023). "Russia to launch their own Wikipedia clone that will be friendlier to Putin following Wagner mutiny". Firstpost. Retrieved July 22, 2023. Despite the Kremlin's efforts to control information, Wikipedia remains one of the most popular websites in Russia. It attracts about 95 million visitors each month and has around 10,000 active editors who maintain almost 2 million articles in Russian.
• "The battle for online information: Russian Wikipedia faces threat as Putin-friendly rival Ruwiki emerges". Asianet News Network. July 13, 2023. Retrieved July 22, 2023. Although Wikipedia has continued to operate in Russia, there are indications that the tide may be turning against it. According to the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a San Francisco-based organisation that hosts the servers that run Russian Wikipedia and is therefore legally responsible for what is published, the government repeatedly fined the website from March 2022 through this June, totaling nearly 23 billion rubles ($255 million).
• Jankowicz, Mia (July 13, 2023). "Russia has launched its own version of Wikipedia, called Ruwiki, which is notably more sympathetic to Putin". Insider. Retrieved July 23, 2023. In June last year, Wikipedia refused a Russian court's demands to remove articles about the invasion of Ukraine, and it has been fined by the Russian state several times since.
• Gertner, Jon (July 18, 2023). "Wikipedia's moment of truth". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2023. ...as bots like ChatGPT become increasingly popular and sophisticated, ... what will happen if Wikipedia, outflanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction[?] ... A computer intelligence — it might not need to be as good as Wikipedia, merely good enough — is plugged into the web and seizes the opportunity to summarize source materials and news articles instantly, the way humans now do with argument and deliberation.
• Lorenz, Taylor (July 20, 2023). "Google it? People now are searching with TikTok or Reddit". Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2023. Annie Rauwerda, a content creator and founder of Depths of Wikipedia, an Instagram page that surfaces the most obscure facts and posts from the service, said that Wikipedia fulfills a lot of the function that Google initially promised. "Wikipedia is constantly updated, there's standards for the sources, so it's very rare that you find low quality SEO farm websites cited," she said. Googling, she added, "should be so simple, but it was absolutely annihilated by SEO and random AI written stuff."
• Benjakob, Omer (July 18, 2023). "Conservative Israeli Think Tank Uses "Sock Puppets" to Skew Wikipedia". Haaretz. Retrieved July 23, 2023. But over the weekend it was revealed that a Kohelet researcher operated at least five fake accounts on Hebrew Wikipedia to covertly influence the open encyclopedia.
• "Swiss National Library starts collecting Wikipedia articles". Swissinfo. July 18, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023. Just because Wikipedia is online does not mean that this online encyclopaedia is secured for all eternity," Wikimedia said. "This can only be guaranteed by a memory institution with a corresponding mandate. The Swiss National Library has this mission.
• Amdur, Eli (July 23, 2023). "Will Your Kids Be Using Wikipedia In Ten Years?". Forbes. Retrieved July 24, 2023. Well, here we are. EB is gone, Encarta is gone, and Wikipedia is one of the ten most visited sites in the world, its contributors making a half million edits per day.
• Geller, Lena; Billman, Jeffrey (July 24, 2023). "Durham Officials Directed City Attorney to Try to Unmask Anonymous Wikipedia Editors". Indy Week. Retrieved July 24, 2023. In a certified letter to the Wikimedia Foundation dated June 29 and obtained by the INDY last week, Rehberg explained that she was writing at the "express request" of Mayor Elaine O'Neal and city council members DeDreana Freeman and Monique Holsey-Hyman, each of whom took issues with content on their Wikipedia pages.
• Moore, Mary Helen (July 26, 2023). "Durham mayor, City Council members pressed attorney to handle mysterious Wikipedia edits". The News & Observer. Retrieved July 26, 2023. The signature remained on O'Neal's Wikipedia page until about 3 p.m. Tuesday. Holsey-Hyman's page contains a lengthy section dedicated to "Extortion allegations and investigation." Freeman's page maintains a paragraph about her argument in City Hall.
• Gutbrod, Hans (July 28, 2023). "Perspectives: The Wikipedia browsing habits of South Caucasians". Eurasianet. Retrieved September 1, 2023. Wikipedia in the region rests on few shoulders. While Azerbaijan lists more than 600 active users and Armenia has 450 active users, Georgia has just a bit more than 200 - about the number you could place into a midsized Tbilisi restaurant.

August

• "Wikipedia-Mitbegründer: "Keine Enzyklopädie war meines Wissens nach so voreingenommen"" [Wikipedia Co-Founder: "No Encyclopedia, To My Knowledge, Has Been As Biased"]. Report 24 (in German). August 3, 2023. Archived from the original on August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 4, 2023. Gegenüber Glenn Greenwald erklärte jüngst der Mitbegründer von Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, dass die Enzyklopädie zu einem Propagandawerkzeug des Establishments avanciere. Auch die CIA habe ihre Finger mit im Spiel. Die Plattform sei Teil der Informationskriegsführung. English translation: The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, recently told Glenn Greenwald that the encyclopedia was becoming a propaganda tool of the establishment. The CIA is also involved. The platform is part of information warfare.
• Chiappa, Claudia (August 3, 2023). "Russia fines Apple, Wikipedia for leaving up content it doesn't like about Ukraine war". Politico. Retrieved August 8, 2023. Wikimedia said the information on Wikipedia is "well-sourced," "fact-based" and in line with its editorial policies. Despite receiving a "steady stream of demands" to remove content, the foundation said it has not complied with any of the demands and has two active appeals with a Moscow court for fines related to content on the war in Ukraine.
• "Russia fines Wikipedia and Apple for spreading 'false information' about Ukraine conflict". Associated Press. August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023. A justice of the peace in a magistrate's court, which handles administrative violations and low-level criminal cases, fined the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000) for retaining material on Russian-language Wikipedia pages that violated a law against discrediting Russia's military and spreading false information about the Ukraine conflict, the Interfax news agency reported.
• "Wikipedia's secret agent: CIA role in 'moderating' online Encyclopedia". Al Mayadeen. August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023. Additionally, CIA computers were responsible for editing numerous articles, including those related to then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's nuclear program, and the Argentine navy, as per Sanger.
• Lovingood, Chris (August 4, 2023). "Durham leaders dispute 'unflattering' Wikipedia info, claim page was used in cyberbullying". WRAL-TV. Retrieved August 8, 2023. WRAL News has obtained a series of emails and a letter showing the Durham city attorney spent time requesting the private information of Wikipedia users.
• Creighton, Adam (August 7, 2023). "User beware: Wikipedia has fallen for groupthink". The Australian. Retrieved August 8, 2023. Wikipedia's massive influence has spawned an industry of paid propagandists, hired to massage personal and corporate reputations. For $US600 you can have your own flattering page. Perhaps I should avail myself of this service!
• "Mia Khalifa, Oppenheimer, Ashura dominate Arabic Wikipedia's most read articles in July". The New Arab. August 7, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023. Several articles related to Islam featured in the list, with the Muslim "fajr" or dawn prayer taking fourth spot and the "istikhara" prayer for guidance behind it in fifth.
• Harrison, Stephen (August 24, 2023). "Wikipedia Will Survive A.I." Slate. Retrieved August 31, 2023. Veteran Wikipedians have couched ChatGPT as an existential threat, predicting that A.I. chatbots will supplant Wikipedia in the same way that Wikipedia infamously dethroned Encyclopedia Britannica back in 2005.
• Rampal, Nikhil (August 27, 2023). "What gets Wikipedia its most clicks in India? 'xxx', sex, 'xxx_film_series'". ThePrint. Retrieved August 31, 2023. The data does, however, show that India is not an anomaly in terms of searching for explicit content on the educational portal. With 12 lakh clicks, 'xxx' tops the click list on Wikipedia in Pakistan as well. In Bangladesh, the term 'xxx' ranked number 1 with over 9 lakh clicks, and in Sri Lanka, it was the term 'sex', with over 64,000.
• Orlowski, Andrew (August 28, 2023). "Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 31, 2023. Several times, the Wikimedia Endowment has promised to convert the entity into a more transparent 501(c)(3) organisation. This would lift the veil of secrecy that shrouds the fund. In seven years, we still lack basic details of expenses and salaries.
• Li, Yanyan (August 30, 2023). "DATA DEEP DIVE: WHICH SWIMMERS ARE TRENDING ON WIKIPEDIA?". SwimSwam. Retrieved August 31, 2023. In this article, I used Wikipedia's tools to analyze the number of views world's most famous swimmers get on their pages.

September

• El, Oshrit Gal (September 9, 2023). "'The more vibrant the society, the more actors seek to influence Wikipedia'". Ynetnews. Retrieved September 10, 2023. Apart from increasing the number of editors and their diversity, the Israeli branch is aiming to promote the GLAM initiative to encourage cultural institutions to share their resources with the public through collaborative projects with Wikipedia editors.
• Ruff, Rhiannon (September 11, 2023). "Why Wikipedia is so imperative for public relations". PR Daily. Retrieved September 12, 2023. Wikipedia's impact on reputation can't be overstated, and brands should have a plan for engaging with the site. Having a well-written and accurate Wikipedia page can enhance an organization's credibility and reputation.
• Sato, Mia (September 13, 2023). "TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results". The Verge. Retrieved September 13, 2023. TikTok spokesperson Zachary Kizer confirmed to The Verge that the company is partnering with Wikipedia to bring information to users directly in-app. Kizer says the feature has been live for a few months, but it doesn't appear the company formally announced it or that media had reported it previously.
• Davies, Matthew (September 14, 2023). "AI doesn't herald the end of Wikipedia, says founder". The National. Retrieved September 15, 2023. One of Mr Wales' examples of it "hallucinating" is when he asks the question of the sophisticated AI chatbot, ChatGPT, 'who did Kate Garvey (his wife) marry?' "I get a different answer everyday, so that's quite fun. The favourite was that she married (British politician) Peter Mandelson."
• Magnus, P.D. (September 4, 2023). "Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later". First Monday. Retrieved September 19, 2023. To put it in rough terms: About a third to a half of the fibs were removed or flagged within a 48-hour window.
• Clark, Milo J.; Young, Tyler S. (September 4, 2023). "Wikipedia: A Model for Better Discourse on Campus". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 20, 2023. Behind every published Wikipedia article, there's a hidden realm of debate, discussion, and collaboration. This unseen world, built atop Wikipedia's unique open source editing model, can offer us a masterclass in civil discourse and disagreement.
• Villeneuve, Cassidy (September 14, 2023). "Physicists Fill in Wikipedia's Gaps on Climate Science". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 16, 2023. APS has trained 110 members, from high schoolers to a Nobel Prize laureate, to improve Wikipedia's coverage of physicists and their work, from scientist biographies to quantum computing. These newly minted editors have practiced science writing on a global stage.
• Pollok, Sarah (September 20, 2023). "The most interesting cities in New Zealand and the world according to Wikipedia". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved September 21, 2023. Nonetheless, if you're after a destination brimming with attractions, historical events and figures worth a page on Wikipedia, Christchurch is the place.

October

• Ferguson, Donna (October 1, 2023). "'Why are they not on Wikipedia?': Dr Jess Wade's mission for recognition for unsung scientists". The Guardian. Retrieved October 1, 2023. Since 2017, when Wade was in her late 20s, she has been campaigning tirelessly to raise the profile of female scientists and scientists of colour. After realising that many notable women working in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) and others from minority backgrounds did not have Wikipedia pages, though they were deserving of them, she decided to start them herself, one every day. ... "I'm constantly astounded by who doesn't have a Wikipedia page," she says.
• Sanyal, Debarghya (October 4, 2023). "Why does Wikipedia need donations despite its massive popularity?". Business Standard. Retrieved October 5, 2023. A couple of months back, the flagship arm of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), reached out to its Indian users for help.
• Rauwerda, Annie (October 5, 2023). "On Wikipedia, Anyone Can Be a Model". Slate. Retrieved October 7, 2023. Wikipedia is the greatest collection of knowledge the world has ever had, and Wikimedia Commons gives it color with 100 million free-to-use media files, everything from caterpillars to thirst traps to a full-length 1915 porno. But it's not complete, and it'll never be complete, and maybe it needs you.
• Cleal, Olivia (October 11, 2023). "What a Wikipedia page can do for women in STEM". womensagenda.com.au. Retrieved October 13, 2023. Dr Zeppel, who works in mitigating the impact of climate change through machine learning and AI, has been writing Wikipedia pages on women for four years.
• Williams, Zoe (October 23, 2023). "Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him". The Guardian. Retrieved October 23, 2023. Wincing and scorn aside, Musk is after Wikipedia for a reason. The sight of something created socially that works is an insult to him.
• Lee, Dave (October 24, 2023). "No Wonder Elon Musk Is Now Attacking Wikipedia". Bloomberg Opinion. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2023 – via The Washington Post. The crowdsourced encyclopedia is a monumental project that for more than two decades has represented the very best of what the internet has to offer — unlike X.
• Jones, CT (October 24, 2023). "Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 5, 2023. The famous quote about [Wikipedia] that's been repeated a lot of times in the last 20 years is that 'Wikipedia does not work in theory, but it does work in practice,'" Rauwerda says. "It's all these bizarre zealots that spend hours every day correcting each other and debating things, and it's for free. This is just like a group of people that love explaining stuff.
• Chafkin, Max (October 24, 2023). "Wikipedia Stands as the Last Good Website". Bloomberg News. Retrieved November 27, 2023. The online encyclopedia doesn't collect personal information about readers and doesn't have any advertising. There are no influencers, and there is no Catturd.
• Harrison, Stephen (October 26, 2023). "Wikipedia Is Covering the War in Israel and Gaza Better Than X". Slate. Retrieved October 31, 2023. Although the discourse on X has devolved into combative binary opposition and fact-free cheerleading for one's team, Wikipedia is emerging as a superior place to learn about the conflict. But even with its higher quality of information, one can't help but feel a certain chill when reading about these disturbing events on Wikipedia.
• Lee, Michael (October 26, 2023). "Robots could create a more reliable Wikipedia: study". Fox News. Retrieved October 31, 2023. Researchers for the study developed an AI system called "SIDE," which analyzed Wikipedia references to find missing and broken links or see if the references actually support the claims of the article. For references that didn't meet the standard, the system was able to suggest better alterative references that would be more useful.
• Gutelle, Sam (October 26, 2023). "Smosh's "Dickipedia" t-shirts are a response to Elon Musk's comments about Wikipedia". Tubefilter. Retrieved October 31, 2023. The Chief Twit's anti-Wikipedia screen led to the development of some official Dickipedia merch, which is now available — you guessed it — over at Dickipedia.com. (The URL redirects to the Smosh store.)
• Thannoo, Jamie (October 29, 2023). "Why Wikipedia users document the history, cultures and wildlife of Western Australia". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved October 31, 2023. The risk of bias from Wikipedia editors has been subject to much scrutiny, but Professor Leaver said the consensus from researchers was that the system worked. "The contributions from different editors do basically level themselves out ... they do tend to basically fact check each other with real vigour," he said.
• Cohen, Noam (October 30, 2023). "Elon Musk's hate for Wikipedia reveals his true views on free speech". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 31, 2023. Maybe the losers are on to something.

November

• Mendelle, Hava (November 2, 2023). "Wikipedia at war". Spectator Australia. Retrieved November 2, 2023. Wikipedia itself notes its journalistic bias here stating that sources are predominately derived from liberal news sources. [...] The danger in this, for a society relying solely on Wikipedia, is that conflicting research is not presented for a broader perspective which is crucial during major events when page views increase significantly. The first week of any major event has the most views and this wanes over time as seen below in the example on the 2023 Israel-Hamas War. [Chart of page views over time to that article is shown.]
• Adorney, Julian (November 6, 2023). "Is it possible to save Wikipedia?". Washington Examiner. Retrieved November 13, 2023. But Wikipedia's problems run deeper. Unlike sites such as Slate or National Review, people go to Wikipedia looking for neutral information on a topic. When they seek neutral information and instead find left-wing talking points, it's bad for our public discourse as a whole.
• Stokel-Walker, Chris (November 9, 2023). "Wikipedia is more likely to cover events in richer countries than poorer ones, new research finds". Fast Company. Retrieved November 9, 2023. Ruprechter says that the problem is well-known among those overseeing the online encyclopedia. "I think the Wikimedia Foundation is pretty aware of these—I don't want to say biases—maybe it's more like a knowledge gap or deficiency," he says.
• Buckfire, Hayden (November 9, 2023). "Should you trust Wikipedia?". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved November 13, 2023. It has been reported that government and corporate employees have edited Wikipedia to remove negative information about their respective employers. ... While events like these are concerning, it is important to note that Wikipedia is still broadly accurate.
• Ro, Crystal (November 16, 2023). "What's The Most Disturbing Wikipedia Page About A Missing Person?". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 17, 2023. So, tell us, what's the most unsettling Wikipedia page about a missing person (or persons) you've ever read?
• Benjakob, Omer (November 17, 2023). "Blame Games and Edit Wars as Wikipedia Gets Pulled Into the Israel-Gaza Conflict". Haaretz. Retrieved November 19, 2023. The issue of the government's responsibility and Netanyahu's accountability specifically has tested Hebrew Wikipedia's volunteer editors, who are expected to work together to reach a consensus and to describe even the thorniest of political issues with neutral phrasing, backed up with sources. ... Unlike many Wikipedias in languages with a global span, like English, Spanish or Arabic, Hebrew Wikipedia resembles its Polish or Hungarian counterparts in being more of an "Israeli Wikipedia." It can be seen as having an implicit pro-Israeli bias.
• Klein, Shira (November 17, 2023). "Exposing the Holocaust Lies on the Dark Side of Wikipedia". Chapman News. Retrieved November 21, 2023. Most people trust that Wikipedia's editors will protect them from distortion and lies. ... The work I did with Dr. Grabowski showed that this system isn't nearly as strong as we'd like it to be, and that it will take effort to fortify it.
• Olatunde, Isaac (November 20, 2023). "Why do many Nigerians fail the Wikipedia notability criteria?". Peoples Gazette. Retrieved November 20, 2023. The truth is that Nigerian celebrities could easily meet Wikipedia's notability criteria if they allowed enough time for them to be significantly covered in the media. This way, a Wikipedia editor with no conflict of interest will notice them and write about them on Wikipedia.
• Rauwerda, Annie (November 23, 2023). "Watching the Napoleon Movie? Don't Forget to Read His Wikipedia Page". Slate. Retrieved November 27, 2023. Unlike the encyclopedias of yore, Wikipedia shows which entries people are looking up—and which ones nobody is reading (a tireless study by an admin named Colin Morris revealed that many of the least-trafficked articles are on obscure moth species). Without fail, the box office, particularly for "based on true events" flicks, drives hordes of Wikipedia traffic.

December

• "Le cose più viste su Wikipedia quest'anno" [The most seen things on Wikipedia this year]. Il Post (in Italian). Italy. December 6, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023. Wikimedia, la fondazione che mantiene Wikipedia, ha pubblicato la lista delle voci più lette del 2023 della sua famosa enciclopedia online nella versione in inglese, la più ricca e letta tra le tante disponibili in tutto il mondo. L'elenco può essere considerato per questo il più rappresentativo per farsi un'idea dei temi più cercati e letti sia nei paesi dove si parla l'inglese, sia in quelli che lo utilizzano come seconda lingua e in misura minore in quelli che ci ricorrono all'occorrenza (come capita a molti utenti italiani). [Wikimedia, the foundation that manages Wikipedia, has published a list of the most read articles in 2023 on the English version of its famous online encyclopedia, the largest and most read between the many [versions] available all around the world. For this reason, the list can be considered the most ideal one to get a sense of the most searched and read themes both in English-speaking countries and the ones which use [English] as their second language, as well as the ones which navigate on it occasionally (as it happens for many Italian users).]
• Padilla, Sergio (December 6, 2023). "Wikipedia releases its top 25 most-viewed pages of 2023". CNN. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia has received more than 84 billion page views so far in 2023, according to data the foundation shared with CNN.
• Murphy, Aislinn (December 6, 2023). "ChatGPT's Wikipedia page looked at by internet users more than any other in 2023". Fox Business. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Curious internet users looked at ChatGPT's Wikipedia page more than any other English article on the open-source online encyclopedia website this year, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Gibbons, Katie (December 7, 2023). "ChatGPT beats Barbie and Oppenheimer to top Wikipedia searches". The Sunday Times. Retrieved December 10, 2023. The top countries that accessed English Wikipedia overall to date in 2023 are the United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion) — followed by India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion) and Australia (2.56 billion), according to data shared with the Associated Press.
• "Wikipedia's most-viewed articles of 2023 revealed". Sky News. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Themes in the top 25 also included cinematic searches, with summer blockbusters Oppenheimer, Barbie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 making the list.
• Breen, Amanda (December 7, 2023). "Wikipedia's 25 Most Popular Pages of 2023 Reveal What We All Can't Stop Thinking About". Entrepreneur. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Wikipedia's list also reflected the substantial cultural and digital impact of Indian audiences, CNN reported. Among the top five were entries related to the 2023 Cricket World Cup and the Indian Premier League, resonating with the sport's massive fan base in India.
• Itelson, Matt (December 7, 2023). "SF State students write Wikipedia bios for unsung heroes of STEM". San Francisco State University. Retrieved December 11, 2023. Nine of the biographies compiled by SF State students are live on Wikipedia. The students' writing brings visibility to living professionals whose legacies have yet to be completed. They include chemical engineer Miguel Modestino, sustainable industrial engineer Enrique Lomnitz and Procter & Gamble executive and microbiologist Adrian Land.
• Cant, Ash (December 7, 2023). "Wikipedia's top articles from 2023 reveal our dark curiosity". The New Daily. Retrieved December 11, 2023. In 2023, it seemed people couldn't get enough cricket, with the 2023 Cricket World Cup coming in third overall for article reads and the Indian Premier League coming in fourth.
• "Dive into the weird and wonderful Depths of Wikipedia". WBUR. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023. "In the early days of Wikipedia, there were just weird disparities in the coverage," Rauwerda says. "It goes to show how 'nerdy' the Wikipedia editor base was and how much it didn't really reflect the broader world."
• Harrison, Stephen (December 8, 2023). "Why Wikipedia's Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp". Slate. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Angry road editors like Ben are up in arms, claiming that this hard-line interpretation of the guideline does not reflect the realities of the situation. With local newspapers going out of business left and right, there are rarely any other sources to draw from for these kinds of articles. Why not allow Wikipedians to cite from DOT, which is responsible for publishing highway routes?
• Smith, Steven (December 8, 2023). "Wikipedia's top articles of the year show what we're really interested in". Wales Online. Retrieved December 10, 2023. ChatGPT topping the list shows how the rise of AI grabbing people's attention. Wikimedia said: "The fastest-growing consumer application in history recently reached its one-year anniversary.
• Brown, Lonnie (December 9, 2023). "Have you gotten $2.75 worth of info from Wikipedia? Free encyclopedia is seeking donations". The Ledger. Retrieved December 17, 2023. Wikipedia operates under the Wikimedia Foundation, which has been rated as a 100% four-star foundation by Charity Navigator.
• Gutoskey, Ellen (December 10, 2023). "Wikipedia's 25 Most Popular Pages of 2023". Mental Floss. Retrieved December 10, 2023. If there's an overall MVP of the list, it's probably cricket. Pages relating to the sport took four of the top 10 spots: the 2023 Cricket World Cup, the Indian Premier League, the Cricket World Cup, and the 2023 Indian Premier League. But even cricket couldn't compete with the buzziest tech topic of 2023—artificial intelligence. ChatGPT came in first place, with a staggering 49.5 million page views.
• Tezuka, Shuichi (December 11, 2023). "Introducing Justapedia". Quillette. Retrieved December 11, 2023. Until 2021, media coverage of Wikipedia usually depicted it as an overall force for good, describing it in terms such as "the 'good cop' of the internet." But within the past two years, this coverage has undergone a shift in focus, with a greater portion of recent media attention being devoted to how Wikipedia being is manipulated for reasons such as politics, self-promotion, or to propagate hoaxes.
• Teo, Kai Xiang (December 14, 2023). "The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages". Business Insider. Retrieved December 15, 2023. A screenshot of the Wikimedia's 2021 IRS filing that zeroes in on executive salary was shared on X on Tuesday. The post has since garnered 9 million views and 5,000 likes on the platform — and it kicked off a conversation about salaries in the tech world.
• "Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down Amid 'Foreign Agent' Threats". The Moscow Times. December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 20, 2023. According to Kozlovsky, the decision to shutter the organization came just hours after he was forced to resign from his job at Moscow State University's Department of Psychology, where he had worked for nearly 25 years.
• Mendelle, Have (December 23, 2023). "Is Wikipedia struggling to maintain neutrality in times of political unrest?". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved December 23, 2023. Yet, Wikipedia's collective consensus building to achieve neutrality is an assumption that is naïve at best, revealing what I believe to be unsettling editor bias on the platform.
• Duggan, Kyle (December 23, 2023). "Wikipedia Regretfully Announces It Will Have to Start Killing Hostages". Hard Drive. Retrieved December 25, 2023. "Wikipedia is still not for sale," said founder Jimmy Wales as he struggled with the safety lever on his AK47 and gestured to the blindfolded figure kneeling on the floor in front of him.
• "Arab Language Wikipedia in solidarity with Palestinians in war". Ynet. December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023. The group decided to shut down its site on Saturday for 24 hours "in support of the residents of the Gaza Strip and in protest of the continuing attacks, while calling for an end to the war and the spread of peace."
• Leonard, Christian (December 31, 2023). "Visits to these California cities' Wikipedia pages surged in 2023". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 1, 2023. But in 2023, the number of visits to a few cities' pages doubled or even quadrupled compared with 2022, often related to several of the year's biggest news events — some of them tragic.

See also

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