Background and Controversies

Background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies (Covered in Wikipedia)


Controversies (Covered independently)

The ‘human-like’ bots that have been arguing on Wikipedia for TEN years. Published: 19:05 EDT, 24 February 2017 | Updated: 19:05 EDT, 24 February 2017, By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4258276/Bots-arguing-Wikipedia-TEN-years.html

Poor Fact-Checking, Flat-Out Fabrication’ Leads to Daily Mail Ban by Wikipedia

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201702091050507211-wikipedia-daily-mail-ban/

“Wikimedia Foundation director resigns after uproar over “Knowledge Engine”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/head-of-wikimedia-foundation-resigns-as-tensions-with-editors-mount/

Can Wikipedia Survive?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html

Just give me some privacy: Anonymous Wikipedia editors explain why they don’t want you to know who they are. October 12, 2016

http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/October/Tor-Wikipedia-privacy/

Analysis Why Jimmy Wales’ WikiTribune Won’t Save the News. (News that Jimmy Wales is extending the Wiki model into digital journalism with Wikitribune ignores his site’s role in creating the same phenomena it now wishes to fight.) Apr 27, 2017 6:52 PM

http://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-1.786100

Wikipedia editors have received rape and death threats while editing controversial pages. (Wikipedia editors say they use Tor to stay anonymous online after being harassed via their IP addresses.), By Mary-Ann Russon, Updated October 21, 2016 13:44 BST

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikipedia-editors-have-received-rape-death-threats-while-editing-controversial-pages-1586802

Wikipedia ‘facts’ change depending on where you live: Use this tool to spot the massive bias in articles around the world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4032322/Wikipedia-facts-differ-depending-live-Online-tool-helps-spot-geographical-bias-articles.html

Wikipedia’s newest app sets template for publishers

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedias-newest-app-sets-template-for-publishers-2016-8

How to save Wikipedia: Start paying editors … or write for machines

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/22/orlowski_fixes_wikipedia/

The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men? (Wikipedia is the world’s most popular encyclopaedia, a collaborative utopia. But only one in every ten of its editors is a woman.)

http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it

Only 8.5pc of Wikipedia editors are women. How do we fix the gender gap on the internet? 07 February 2017

https://yourstory.com/2017/02/wikipedia-and-women/

The People’s Cube Purged from Wikipedia. By Debra Heine, January 18, 2017

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/18/the-peoples-cube-purged-from-wikipedia/

Wikipedia Deletes David Seaman Entry Following His PizzaGate Coverage (Last Updated On: December 15, 2016)

http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/wikipedia-deletes-david-seaman-entry-following-his-pizzagate-coverage/19050/

Wikipedia Is Now Trying To Eliminate The Federalist’s Online Entry, September 26, 2014 By Sean Davis

http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/26/wikipedia-is-now-trying-to-eliminate-the-federalists-online-entry/

11/02/2015 03:53 pm ET | Updated Nov 01, 2016, Wikipedia and Deepak Chopra: Open-Source Character Assassination, By Ryan Castle

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-castle/wikipedia-deepak-chopra-o_b_8449394.html

Holy Grails of Truth Don’t Exist, By Olivia Shuler, Jan 26, 2016

http://emorywheel.com/holy-grails-of-truth-they-dont-exist/

Understanding What It Takes To Be Notable For Wikipedia, November 16, 2014

http://www.business2community.com/social-media/understanding-takes-notable-wikipedia-01069310

Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist – That’s Why It Needs You, Forbes-Apr 26, 2013

https://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/#6dab197564bf

The Wikipedia Purge, February 17, 2017, By Thomas Panis

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/the_wikipedia_purge.html

How Activists Are Diversifying Wikipedia One Edit At A Time, GOOD Magazine-Apr 27, 2017

https://www.good.is/articles/wikipedia-editors-diversity

Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other, Popular Science-Feb 27, 2017

http://www.popsci.com/wikipedia-bots-fighting

May 21 2017, Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fair-use-wikipedia-targets-australians-in-bid-to-change-the-law-20170521-gw9kzq.html

Wikipedia Knows It Has a Sexism Problem… And Is Trying …, KQED-May 16, 2017

https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/05/16/wikipedia-knows-it-has-a-sexism-problem-and-is-trying-surprisingly-hard-to-fix-it/