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Do you trust Wikipedia with your health? Med students aim to make it better
When you get sick, do you look to Wikipedia to help you figure out what ails you? A California medical professor thinks if you’re going to do that — and many do — he might as well improve the quality of those articles. And he’s getting med students to help him.
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A World Without Wikipedia
The anti piracy laws being considered in the U.S. have produced worldwide internet turmoil. Perhaps you are already aware that the giant Wikipedia website in English is down not because of some pirates, but in protest to what the Wikipedia people think this would do to the internet. Well Wikipedia’s message today is that we […]
Who writes Wikipedia?
The collaborative online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia, celebrates its 10-year anniversary on Saturday. It’s the largest encyclopedia ever made, with three and a half million articles in English alone and seventeen million articles globally. To create and edit all of that information, the site relies on volunteers. They call themselves ?Wikipedians.” Andrea James, a Wikipedian, shares […]
What Would Xenu Do? Wikipedia Shuts Site To Scientologists
Scientologists are no longer welcome to edit entries on Wikipedia. This policy change came after a number of users with IP addresses associated with the Church of Scientology were making edits that allegedly defied the site’s nonpartisan goals.
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