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Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules   —  A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways.  But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue.
Mar 2, 2024, 9:30 PMIn context
Noam Cohen / Bloomberg:
As Wikimedia Russia shutters, a look at the Kremlin-compliant Wikipedia alternative Ruwiki, led by a former Wikimedia Russia director and launched on January 15   —  A campaign to replace the country's Wikipedia with a more pliant alternative seems near completion.
Jan 24, 2024, 5:25 AMIn context
Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature:
London-based Samaya AI unveils an AI tool that suggests better Wikipedia references for citations the tool identifies as unlikely to support associated claims   —  - Chris Stokel-Walker 0  —  Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK.  —  You can also search for this author in
Oct 20, 2023, 10:50 PMIn context
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X now requires a linked source for proposed community notes, as researchers say misinformation on X has reached new heights during the Israel-Hamas war   —  Researchers have said that misinformation has reached new heights amid the Israel-Hamas war.  —  X is making a significant change …
Oct 17, 2023, 9:15 PMIn context
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
To comply with the EU's DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more access, and more   —  Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work …
Aug 24, 2023, 7:15 AMIn context
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service's origin as Wikipedia's sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more   —  Today, I'm talking with Perkins Miller.  He's the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney …
Aug 22, 2023, 2:00 PMIn context
Jon Gertner / New York Times:
A look at the Wikipedia community's debates about AI, including threats and potential benefits to the site, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal recourse   —  Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
Jul 19, 2023, 2:30 AMIn context
Noam Cohen / Bloomberg:
A look at Wikipedia in Russia, where the service remains popular after the Ukraine invasion, and the Kremlin-compliant rival Ruwiki from a long-serving editor   —  When a group of armed mercenaries seized a Russian regional capital and began marching toward Moscow in late June, verified information was hard to come by.
Jul 12, 2023, 5:15 AMIn context
James Vincent / The Verge:
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more   —  In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed.  Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
Jun 26, 2023, 3:25 PMIn context
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer”   —  Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that's already raised $225 million and claims to run …
May 2, 2023, 3:55 PMIn context

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