{"id":1355,"date":"2023-05-05T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T12:08:41","slug":"reading-up-about-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/reading-up-about-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading up about&#8230; Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/1614132120?accountid=10673&amp;forcedol=true\">The Solace of Oblivion<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"roboto-bold\">Jeffrey Toobin, <\/span><span class=\"roboto-bold\">The New Yorker,<\/span><span class=\"jnlArticle\"><span class=\"\"> 29 September 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Really interesting article. Toobin addresses a decision by the European Court of Justice that prohibits Google from linking to certain stories and highlights the distressing Catsouras case as a worthy discussion point: <em>&#8220;There is an inevitable conflict between two distinct social values&#8221;&#8211;privacy and free speech&#8230; The question is how do societies value those competing rights. Technology didn&#8217;t create the tension but just revealed it in a dramatic way.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Headline-headline-2FXIq Headline-black-OogpV ArticleHeader-headline-NlAqj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-google-france-privacy-wikipedia-idUSKCN0YW1GN\"><strong>Wikipedia warns against French attempt to extend EU privacy law globally<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reuters.com, 10 June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Short article warning about technology being censored by judicial restrictions in certain countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/variety-idUSL4N2HA42F\">Jeffrey Toobin Suspended From New Yorker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reuters.com, 19 October 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Interesting follow-up on the author of the 1st article and how he may now wish for this alleged incident to be removed from web search results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/julianvigo\/2019\/10\/03\/google-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten\/?sh=16022c23610f\"><strong>Google And The Right To Be Forgotten<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julian Vigo, Forbes.com, 3 October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Short article following the story about Google delisting web results.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Breyer went on to say that supporting Google\u2019s right to break privacy laws outside the EU would \u201cfracture the internet and raise more borders online.\u201d Obviously, where information is available elsewhere, one need not travel to access it. When I am blocked because of GDPR rules in reading an online American publication, <strong>I simply change my VPN location<\/strong> to the US and I have immediate access. Hence, the notion of geography determining access and privacy right, given current technology of VPN for starters, makes a mockery out of legal data protections. &#8220;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/is-wikipedia-a-good-source-2-college-librarians-explain-when-to-use-the-online-encyclopedia-and-when-to-avoid-it-200636\"><strong>Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia \u2013 and when to avoid\u00a0it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conversation.com, 20 March 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Really good and concise opening introduction to Wikipedia and some perceived pros and cons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"css-1bo5zl0 e164j1a30\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-economist-com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/international\/2021\/01\/09\/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher\"><strong>Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Economist, 9 January 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Two years old article (Wikipedia is 22.5 years old now) but excellent summary of where we are with Wikipedia 20 years on and you can also listen to this story in an engaging audio in 14 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>A former president of the American Library Association in 2007: \u201c<em>A professor who encourages the use of Wikipedia is the intellectual equivalent of a dietician who recommends a steady diet of Big Macs with everything,<\/em>\u201d he sneered.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article__body-text\">&#8220;Toby Negrin, chief product officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based charity that provides the site\u2019s infrastructure, describes the online encyclopedia as a \u201cguardian of truth\u201d. That sounds grandiose. But other tech behemoths now use it as a neutral arbiter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"prop-book-review-header-wrapper_headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/ideas\/technology\/38432\/how-wikipedia-gets-to-define-whats-true-online\"><strong>How Wikipedia gets to define what\u2019s true online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethan Zuckerman, Prospect magazine, 3 March 2022<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Who gets to define what\u2019s true online?&#8230; In practical terms, truth is what Google\u2019s knowledge graph\u2014the massive database of facts that allows the powerful search engine to answer most questions\u2014can deliver to its users. Google\u2019s knowledge graph is descended primarily from Wikipedia and Wikidata, an open-source collection of facts derived from Wikipedia, the remarkable participatory encyclopedia that, in the past 20 years, has become a core part of our collective knowledge infrastructure.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"e581253250\"><em>&#8220;Somehow, verifiability and neutral point of view work together to gradually produce articles that reflect consensus reality. Nonsense, argues Ford. The formation of truth on Wikipedia is as political as it is anywhere else in the world. Her book centres on the creation of a single Wikipedia article about the Tahrir Square protests that ultimately ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. By following the editing of this single article, Ford documents the tension between activists who want to recognise and celebrate history in the making and those who argue that \u201cWikipedia is not a crystal ball\u201d and should be slow and cautious in writing history.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Wikipedia is a roadmap for co-operation and collaboration at scale. As we mourn the apparent impossibility of keeping YouTube free of flat Earthers or Facebook free from vaccine disinformation, the fact that Wikipedia remains an anchor for consensus reality seems worthy of close study. &#8220;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/students-are-told-not-to-use-wikipedia-for-research-but-its-a-trustworthy-source-168834\"><strong>Students are told not to use Wikipedia but it&#8217;s a trustworthy source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rachel Cunneen and Mathieu O&#8217;Neil of University of Canberra, The Conversation.com, 4 November 2021.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;For popular articles, Wikipedia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/92\/Instructor_Basics_How_to_Use_Wikipedia_as_a_Teaching_Tool.pdf\">online community of volunteers, administrators and bots<\/a>\u00a0ensure edits are based on reliable citations. Popular articles are reviewed thousands of times. Some media experts, such as Amy Bruckman, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s computing centre, argue that because of this painstaking process, a highly-edited article on Wikipedia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.pcmag.com\/social-media\/87504\/wikipedia-the-most-reliable-source-on-the-internet\">might be the most reliable source of information ever created<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Wikipedia can be a tool for better media literacy. Research suggests Australian children are not getting sufficient instruction in spotting fake news&#8230;. Our students clearly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utas.edu.au\/social-change\/publications\/insights\/insight-five-media-literacy-in-australian-schools\">need more media literacy education<\/a>, and Wikipedia can be a good media literacy instrument. One way is to use it is with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048994\">lateral reading<\/a>\u201d. This means when faced with an unfamiliar online claim, students should leave the web page they\u2019re on and open a new browser tab. They can then investigate what trusted sources say about the claim.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ae7b\" class=\"pw-post-title hh hi hj be hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr bj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge\/how-many-wikipedia-references-are-available-to-read-d831be23e1bf\"><strong>How many Wikipedia references are available to read?\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wikimedia Foundation, Medium.com, 20 August 2018.<\/li>\n<li>6 minute read. The article discusses measuring the proportion of <strong>open access sources<\/strong> across languages and topics.<\/li>\n<li><em class=\"or\">Less than half <\/em>of the official versions of scholarly publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely available on the web: 29% are free-to-read at the source, while an additional 10% have a free-to-read version available elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2022\/02\/21\/wikipedia-is-open-to-all-the-research-underpinning-it-should-be-too\/\"><strong>Wikipedia is open to all, the research underpinning it should be too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tattersall Andy, LSE Blogs, 21 February 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Our sample indicated that around half of all academic citations on the platform are paywalled.<\/strong> This is a major flaw in the Wikipedia model. Openly available published research helps support the development of Wikipedia. This in turn assists Wikipedia\u2019s ultimate goal of access to transparent and evidence-based knowledge. It would also lower barriers to access research, which ultimately is good for academics and society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">We appreciate that not everything is open for the rest of society and it might be some time before that happens. But, given Wikipedia\u2019s global influence and stated mission, the research that underpins each entry should be as open and accessible as possible. <strong>To take full advantage of this it requires a greater understanding amongst academics and Wikipedians as to the importance of citing open access works over those behind a paywall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entryTitle\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/media.ed.ac.uk\/media\/%27Disrupting%20the%20Publisher-Academic%20Complex%27%20-%20a%20talk%20by%20Peter%20Murray-Rust%20at%20the%20British%20Library%20on%2021%20April%202018\/1_46h85ltt\">&#8216;Disrupting the Publisher-Academic Complex&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entryTitle\">a talk by scientist Peter Murray-Rust at the British Library on 21 April 2018 <strong>(45 min video) <\/strong>about the<strong> &#8216;dystopia&#8217; <\/strong>of the current scholarly publishing model.<\/li>\n<li><i>&#8220;<strong>Disruption<\/strong> does not mean illegality &#8211; it can be new technology, new philosophies, new people. We need a &#8220;Knowledge Spring&#8221; to break free of licences and all the other restrictive rubbish. Today&#8217;s publishers are like Bradbury&#8217;s firemen (Fahrenheit 451) &#8211; their role is to prevent reading.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petermurrayrust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Peter Murray-Rust<\/a>, University of Cambridge and ContentMine Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P9CzjIL-A1Q\">Closing the Gender Gap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikimedia UK, 30 December 2019<strong>\u00a0(19 minute video).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement which supports Wikipedia and its sister sites. This video showcases the work of Wikimedia UK and the community of Wikimedians in the UK as they try to address gender bias and a lack of content on Wikipedia about women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505\">Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research paper about how Wikipedia actively influences science development, providing evidence of causality, instead of the usual correlation. <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u8YHYcFim7Q&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=18m37s\">Video presentation summarising the paper<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;As the largest encyclopedia in the world, <strong>it is not surprising that Wikipedia reflects the state of scientific knowledge<\/strong>. However, Wikipedia is also one of the most accessed websites in the world, including by scientists, which suggests that <strong>it also has the potential to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">shape<\/span> science.<\/strong> This paper shows that it does.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www-jstor-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/stable\/44652520?sid=primo?sid=primo\">&#8216;Anyone can edit&#8217;, not everyone does: Wikipedia&#8217;s infrastructure and the gender gap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-v-4feba758=\"\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"item-authors\">Heather Ford<span data-v-33dc3b68=\"\">, Judy <\/span>Wajcman, Social Studies of Science<span class=\"src\" data-qa=\"item-src-info\" data-v-4feba758=\"\">, Vol. 47, No. 4 (August 2017), pp. 511-527 (17 pages)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;<strong>Less than ten percent of Wikipedia editors are women. At one level, this imbalance in contributions and therefore content is yet another case of the masculine culture of technoscience.<\/strong> This is an important <\/em><em>argument and, in this article, we examine the empirical research that highlights these issues. Our main objective, however, is to extend current accounts by demonstrating that <strong>Wikipedia&#8217;s infrastructure introduces new and less visible sources of gender disparity<\/strong>. In sum, our aim here is to present a consolidated analysis of the gendering of Wikipedia.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div data-v-33dc3b68=\"\" data-v-4feba758=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-33dc3b68=\"\" data-v-4feba758=\"\">\n<p class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rogerhuang\/2022\/12\/16\/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-on-the-future-of-the-internet-bitcoin-web3-cryptocurrencies-and-encryption\/?sh=38601fb010fe\"><strong>Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales On The Future Of The Internet, Bitcoin, Web3, Cryptocurrencies And Encryption<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign\">Roger Huang, Forbes.com, 16 December 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Fairly interesting wide-ranging chat with Jimmy Wales about all of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wikipedia-on-olive-schreiner\/\"><strong>Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh, Whites Writing Whiteness: Letters, Domestic Figurations &amp; Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s, 18 July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>UoE Professor Liz Stanley grapples with what &#8216;expert&#8217; academics role should be when it comes to &#8216;non-expert&#8217; Wikipedia editors (potentially) getting things very wrong in such commonly visited web pages on their specialist subject. Asks some interesting questions.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Do these \u2018hidden\u2019 editors know about the topics under consideration, do they have a good grasp of what the current state of knowledge about something is, and do they understand how to evaluate the quality of different positions, ideas and claims? The bottom line is, are these editors able to detect serious issues in what an entry represents as knowledge?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"BaseWrap-sc-SJwXJ BaseText-fEohGt ContentHeaderHed-kojVvG deUlYF hXMgnP gTpwZd\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/07\/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets\"><strong>\u201cI Was Devastated\u201d: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\">Katrina Brooker, Vanity Fair.com, 1 July 2018.<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><em>&#8220;Initially, Berners-Lee\u2019s innovation was intended to help scientists share data across a then obscure platform called the Internet, a version of which the U.S. government had been using since the 1960s. But owing to his decision to release the source code for free\u2014to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/collection\/the-making-of\" data-uri=\"1bd1559d8a055d07902b2cdda38829c8\">make the Web<\/a> an open and democratic platform for all\u2014his brainchild quickly took on a life of its own.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><em>&#8220;He fully recognizes that re-decentralizing the Web is going to be a lot harder than inventing it was in the first place. \u201cWhen the Web was created, there was nobody there, no vested parties who would resist,\u201d says Brad Burnham&#8230; has started investing in companies aiming to decentralize the Web. \u201cThere are entrenched and very wealthy interests who benefit from keeping the balance of control in their favor.\u201d Billions of dollars are at stake here: Amazon, Google, and Facebook won\u2019t give up their profits without a fight.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techinformed.com\/the-jimmy-wales-interview\/\"><strong>The Jimmy Wales interview<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ann-Marie Corvin, Techinformed.com, 23 February 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"captionExcerpt\">\n<ul>\n<li>At OpenUK&#8217;s inaugural State of Open Conference, Wikipedia\u2019s founder talks ChatGPT, the Online Safety Bill and the site&#8217;s ongoing diversity imbalance.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wales &#8220;acknowledges that the UK government\u2019s troubled-but-well-meaning bill \u2013 which has passed through the hands of four prime ministers in as many years \u2013 is trying to hold big tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter to account. The entrepreneur himself has been the subject of vile slander and abuse on Twitter, but he argues that the Online Safety Bill in its current form is harmful to the open internet and that the government\u2019s \u201csimplistic, top down approach\u201d ignores the way that the wider web works.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"BaseWrap-sc-SJwXJ BaseText-fEohGt ContentHeaderHed-kojVvG deUlYF drTisJ ivjNFd\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wikipedias-plan-to-resist-election-day-misinformation\/\"><strong>Wikipedia&#8217;s Plan to Resist Election Day Misinformation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\">The Wired.com, 26 October 2020. May be paywalled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing Biden v Trump election with its information and reputation intact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003094081\">&#8216;What Counts as Information: The Construction of Reliability and Verifiability&#8217; <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Z.J. McDowell, and M.A. Vetter,\u00a0 (2021). <em>Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality<\/em> (1st ed.). Routledge. [Download and read Chapter 2]<\/li>\n<li>&#8221; <strong>In essence, the encyclopedia decides \u201cwhat counts\u201d as knowledge as it evaluates, processes, and consequently validates information<\/strong>&#8230; In many ways, reliability in Wikipedia is a double-edged sword, as it is accompanied by both advantages and disadvantages. Verifiability, for example, helps to validate information and promote accuracy and trust in the encyclopedia. At the same time, the focus on print or written secondary sources, to the exclusion of other types of knowledge, limits Wikipedia\u2019s ability to fully become reliable in terms of coverage of marginalized topics, or topics which have been developed through knowledge-making practices beyond print. These lessons are important for the general public that consumes and uses the encyclopedia, as well as for anyone that identifies as a newcomer to Wikipedia. Understanding even a small piece of how information becomes knowledge in Wikipedia can increase information literacy skills across other digital platforms.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ed.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/44UOE_INST\/7g3mt6\/alma9924747490102466\">Should you believe Wikipedia?\u202f: online communities and the construction of knowledge<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. Bruckman (2022).\u00a0 Cambridge University Press. <strong>Read pages 64-90 [Chapter 3]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>What does it mean for something to be \u201ctrue\u201d? How is the internet changing how we understand truth? This chapter explores how theories of the nature of truth and knowledge can help us to understand the internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.iheduc.2015.08.004\">Students&#8217; use of Wikipedia as an academic resource &#8211; Patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N. Selwyn &amp;\u00a0S. Gorard (2016). <em>The Internet and Higher Education<\/em> v.28 pp 28-34<\/li>\n<li class=\"react-xocs-list-item\">\n<p id=\"p0005\">Survey data examining 1658 undergraduate students&#8217; uses of digital technologies for academic purposes found 87.5% of students report using Wikipedia for their academic work, with 24.0% of these considering it \u2018very useful\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"react-xocs-list-item\">\n<p id=\"p0015\">Use and perceived usefulness of Wikipedia differs by students\u2019 gender; year of study; cultural background and subject studied.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"react-xocs-list-item\">Wikipedia mainly plays an introductory and\/or clarificatory role in students information gathering and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/10.1080\/00313831.2015.1066428\">&#8220;You get what you need\u201d: A study of students\u2019 attitudes towards using Wikipedia when doing school assignments.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M. Blikstad-Balas (2016). Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 60(6) <strong>pages 594-608.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A discrepancy between students\u2019 positive attitudes to including Wikipedia in their school-related literacy practices and their teachers\u2019 lack of approval of this knowledge source is discussed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3998\/mpub.11778416.ch13.en\">Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E. McAndrew in <em>Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project (2021).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Overview of the how &amp; why of five years&#8217; work at the University of Edinburgh targeting improved diversity of content and editors contributing to Wikipedia inc. Scottish suffragettes, Scottish witches and the Edinburgh Seven, the first female undergraduates to study at any UK university.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ed.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/44UOE_INST\/1viuo5v\/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_joc_jqac004\">The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I. Langrock &amp; S. Gonz\u00e1lez-Bail\u00f3n, Journal of communication (2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"prop-book-review-header-wrapper_headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/politics\/40956\/wikipedia-is-the-last-bastion-of-idealism-on-the-internet\"><strong>Wikipedia is the last bastion of idealism on the internet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Speed, Prospectmagazine.co.uk, 22 January 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corante.com\/many\/academia-and-wikipedia\/\"><strong>Academia and Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Danah Boyd, Corante.com, January 4 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Very early dissection of the tensions between academia and Wikipedia from way back in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corante.com\/many\/wikipedia-academia-and-seigenthaler\/\"><strong>Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Danah Boyd, Corante.com, 17 December 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Seigenthaler\u2019s concern that \u201cirresponsible vandals [can] write anything they want about anybody.\u201d Much to my complete and utter joy, Jimmy Wales responded with a fantastic structural comparison that i felt should be surfaced and shared to the world at large about comparing Wikipedia as a steak restaurant. Worth a quick read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"id_title\" class=\"condensed\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.pcmag.com\/social-media\/133755\/wikipedia-the-most-reliable-source-on-the-internet\">Wikipedia: The Most Reliable Source on the Internet?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"author-names\"><span class=\"reviewer hcard\">S.C. Stuart, UK PCmag.com, <\/span>3 June 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Amy Bruckman states the answer to &#8220;should you believe Wikipedia?&#8221; isn&#8217;t simple. In [her] book she argues &#8220;<em>that the content of a popular Wikipedia page is actually the most reliable form of information ever created. Think about it\u2014a peer-reviewed journal article is reviewed by three experts (who may or may not actually check every detail), and then is set in stone. The contents of a popular Wikipedia page might be reviewed by thousands of people. If something changes, it is updated. Those people have varying levels of expertise, but if they support their work with reliable citations, the results are solid. On the other hand, a less popular Wikipedia page might not be reliable at all.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"enhancedsharer\" class=\"sharer\">\n<div id=\"share_container\" class=\"left\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thirtyfifthcenturyromance.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/wikipedia-and-research.html\" data-uoe-button=\"info-sign\">Wikipedia, research and representation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amy Burge, 404 error.<\/li>\n<li>Was a lovely article written by a medieval historian and member of staff here at the University of Edinburgh BUT doesn&#8217;t seem to exist anymore. It&#8217;s just gone. An internet full of memory holes \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lornamcampbell.org\/women-in-tech\/mary-susan-mcintosh-and-the-women-in-red\/\" data-uoe-button=\"info-sign\">Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lorna Campbell, Lornamcampbell.org, 11 May 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Our Lorna Campbell writes a short post for International Women&#8217;s Day about the impact you can have from writing a page that does not yet exist and then publishing it and nominating it for mention on Wikipedia&#8217;s front page as a &#8216;Did You Know&#8217; fact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ammienoot.com\/wikipedia\/question-what-do-you-do-with-a-dead-chemist\/\" data-uoe-button=\"info-sign\">What do you do with a dead chemist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne-Marie Scott, Ammienoot.com, 11 May 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Our Anne-Marie Scott reflects on how sometimes when we talk about Wikipedia with colleagues they can quickly get as passionate and engaged as we are. That happened when Ewan went to visit our colleague in Chemistry, Dr Michael Seery and Michael got very upset that 19 brilliant women chemists has been refused Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry and had to petition them in 1904.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reader: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1904_petition_to_the_Chemical_Society\">all 19 have a page on Wikipedia now.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Well, 18. One got deleted. So we need to write that page again so it remains this time!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wikiedu.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/wikipedia-student-writing\/\" data-uoe-button=\"info-sign\"><strong>Wikipedia and Student Writing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Stuhl, Wiki Edu blog, 14 October 2014<\/li>\n<li>Almost 10 years ago but it reflects on what students get from contributing to Wikipedia.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Students said that simply knowing that an audience of editors existed was enough to change how they wrote. They chose words more carefully. They double-checked their work for accuracy and reliability. And they began to think about how best they could communicate their scholarship to readers who were as curious, conscientious, and committed and as they were.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/164950\/\">Vandalism on Collaborative Web Communities: An Exploration of Editorial Behaviour in Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"person\">\u00a0A. Alkharashi<\/span>\u00a0and <span class=\"person\">J.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"person\">Jose i<\/span>n: 5th Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI &#8217;18), Zaragoza, Spain, 26-27 Jun 2018.<\/li>\n<li>University of Glasgow researchers preliminary analysis in 2018 revealed that ~ 90% of the vandalism or foul edits done on Wikipedia were by unregistered users due to nature of openness.<\/li>\n<li>The community reaction seemed to be immediate:<strong> most vandalisms were reverted within five minutes on an average.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Further analysis shed light on the tolerance of Wikipedia community, reliability of anonymous users revisions and feasibility of early prediction of vandalism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/95\/CILIP_Update_November_2015_Poulter_article_pp42-43.pdf\"><strong>&#8216;Shiver-inducing contacts with the past&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Poulter, CILIP Update, November 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Bodleian Wikimedian Martin Poulter says that the digital world can<br \/>\nplay a crucial role in sharing those shiver-inducing moments of contact<br \/>\nwith the past, such as seeing Charles Darwin\u2019s actual handwriting,<br \/>\nand libraries can involve more people in that authentic experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/08\/07\/wikipedia-covid-coronavirus\/\">Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia\u2019s biggest challenges ever. Here\u2019s how the site is handling it.<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travis M. Andrews, The Washington Post, 7 August 2020.<\/li>\n<li>More than 67,000 editors had collaborated to create more than 5,000 Wikipedia articles in 175 different languages about covid-19 and its various impacts.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Jevin West, a professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, said not to worry, that the Wikipedia has handled the virus \u201coverall, exceptionally well. <span style=\"font-size: revert\">It\u2019s not only what people go to and read,\u201d West said. \u201cIt\u2019s what feeds a lot of the major search engines, too. So it sort of has double impact. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert\">As someone who studies misinformation and disinformation, it\u2019s kind of a ray of hope in a sea of pollution,\u201d West added. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like people\u2019s passion to get things right and to be these curators of human knowledge makes them even more careful.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert\">He also cited Wikipedia\u2019s transparency. Certain discredited sources aren\u2019t allowed, and the entire website\u2019s edit history is readily available to the user. Finally, every fact is plainly sourced. \u201cThat level of transparency provides trust,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"sc-jOcvZm fyCjbx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/tech\/most-men-wikipedia-editors-push-for-women-b1065337.html\"><strong>Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men &#8211; so how is the online encyclopedia addressing the issue?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Evening Standard, 8 March 2023. Recent article.<\/li>\n<li>The proportion of so-called \u201cWikipedians\u201d who identify as women is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Community_Insights\/Community_Insights_2021_Report\/Thriving_Movement#Community_and_Newcomer_Diversity\" rel=\"nofollow\"><u>now around 15 per cent<\/u><\/a>. Almost 20 per cent of biography articles on English-language Wikipedia are about women. That compares to around 15.5 per cent in 2014. The most recent data from 2020 shows that newcomers to Wikipedia editing are more likely to be women.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf society were to write more \u2013 historically and presently and in the future \u2013 about women, if journalists wrote as many paragraphs about a woman as is written about a man, there\u2019d be more information that editors could put into Wikipedia articles. You know, we don\u2019t come up with anything out of thin air.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"article__dek\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/wikipedia-women-history-notability-gender-gap.html\"><strong>The Wikipedia rule that makes it harder to create entries about lesser-known but important women from history.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Harrison, Slate.com, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Gender bias on Wikipedia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/10\/08\/why-nobel-winner-donna-strickland-didnt-have-wikipedia-page\/?utm_term=.a723eae6087b\">received media attention<\/a>\u00a0in 2018 when Donna Strickland won a Nobel Prize in physics and, at the time of her award, did not have a Wikipedia page. The problem wasn\u2019t lack of trying: Before the award, a Wikipedia contributor attempted to create a page for Strickland, but a separate editor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Draft:Donna_Strickland&amp;oldid=842614385\">declined<\/a>\u00a0the article because Strickland had not yet received significant coverage in reliable publications like major newspapers. In retrospect, this seems like a bad ruling. Even before she won the Nobel Prize, Strickland was widely considered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/2018\/10\/04\/donna-strickland-wikipedia\/\">a leader in her field<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"article__hed article__hed--\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2018\/08\/the-people-who-update-wikipedia-pages-when-celebrities-like-aretha-franklin-die.html\"><strong>Who Updates Celebrity Deaths on Wikipedia?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Harrison, Slate.com, 16 August 2018.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__dek\">Meet the editors who race to be the first to declare a famous person dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mt-4 header-100 leading-tight max-w-5xl \"><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/depths-of-wikipedia-instagram-tiktok-account\"><strong>Travel down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with the mastermind behind <em>DepthsOfWikipedia<\/em> Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elena Cavender, Mashable.com, 24 October 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ft-c-single-post__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/depths-of-wikipedia-annie-rauwerda\/\"><strong>The Depths of Wikipedia creator on finding the goofy corners of the web<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kristina Bravo, Mozilla.org., 10 March 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"article--title-header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/discover\/news\/2023\/may\/monitoring-changes-in-wikipedia-pageviews-could-help-save-wildlife.html\"><strong>Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article--meta-author\">Emma Caton, Natural History Museum, 4 May 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers have developed a new tool called the <a href=\"https:\/\/joemillard.shinyapps.io\/Real_time_SAI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-describedby=\"new-window\">Species Awareness Index (SAI)<\/a>, which can track the real-time rate of change in online biodiversity awareness. The index looks at the monthly change in average daily page views for around 40,000 species (under reptiles, ray-finned fishes, mammals, birds, insects, and amphibians) across 10 of the most popular Wikipedia languages.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Being able to see in real-time how a population&#8217;s interest in biodiversity is changing can help organisations make conservation management decisions on the basis of those changes.&#8217; says Joseph. &#8216;But if, for example, you see in real-time that there is a growing interest for bumblebees, perhaps driven by a viral video, conservation charities could then make a deliberate effort to increase advertising to help protect that species.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_3__1kDhc heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_3__3aL54 article-header__title__3Y2hh\" data-testid=\"Heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-court-fines-wikipedia-2-mln-roubles-not-deleting-banned-content-military-2023-04-27\/\"><strong>Russian court fines Wikipedia again for article about war in Ukraine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-testid=\"Heading\">Reuters.com, 27 April 2023.<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Heading\">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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"article-header__title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verdict.co.uk\/russian-court-fines-wikipedia-for-seventh-time-over-ukraine-invasion-article\/\">Russian court fines Wikipedia for seventh time over Ukraine invasion article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kurt Robson, Verdict.com, 27 April 2023.x<\/li>\n<li>Wikimedia\u2019s fines now sit at a whopping Rbs8.4m ($103,000).Leighanna Mixter, Wikimedia\u2019s senior legal manager, previously said: \u201cThese orders are part of an ongoing effort by the Russian government to limit the spread of reliable, well-sourced information in the country.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2023\/04\/28\/wikipedia-elite-control-the-worlds-knowledge\/\"><strong>How Wikipedia became too powerful<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e-byline__author\" data-test=\"author-name\">Harry de Quetteville, <\/span>The Telegraph, 28 April 2023. May be paywalled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wikipedia-state-sponsored-disinformation\/\">The Hunt for Wikipedia&#8217;s disinformation moles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wired.com, 17 October 2022. May be paywalled.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS<\/span>\u00a0such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have struggled with the onslaught of fake news, disinformation, and bots, Wikipedia has transformed itself into a source of trusted information\u2014not just for its readers but also for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/newsbeat-43401655\" data-uri=\"9fda16885f28d44b3d22bcee25453e54\">other tech platforms<\/a>. The challenge now is to keep it that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/2022-wasnt-the-year-of-cleopatra-so-why-was-she-the-most-viewed-page-on-wikipedia-197350\"><strong>2022 wasn\u2019t the year of Cleopatra \u2013 so why was she the most viewed page on\u00a0Wikipedia?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taha Yasseri, The Conversation, 12 January 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Researcher Taha Yasseri gathers statistics on the most viewed Wikipedia articles of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Most articles at the top of the 2022 list are related to major world events, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the death of the Queen and the men\u2019s football World Cup. Elon Musk and Johnny Depp also made the list. In addition to perennial favourites such as the Bible and YouTube, there are a couple of surprises that were probably influenced by external factors like media and popular culture. For example, the article about Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious US serial killer who died in 1994, had more than 54 million views, coming in at number two.\n<div class=\"slot clear\" data-id=\"17\">\n<div class=\"promo\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, the massive interest in the article about Cleopatra remains a mystery&#8230;. the Google Assistant app, which uses voice recognition to allow users to interact with their phones through conversation, may be responsible. One of the prompts the app provides to demonstrate its capabilities is \u201cTry saying: Show Cleopatra on Wikipedia\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Cleopatra example highlights the impact that seemingly small decisions by designers can have on directing collective attention to certain topics and issues, sometimes with more serious consequences. Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results-11573823753\">has been criticised<\/a>\u00a0for ranking search results in a way that prioritises its own products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-years-studying-one-wikipedia-article-192602\"><strong>Friday essay: shaping history \u2013 why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia\u00a0article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heather Ford, The Conversation, 24 November 2022.<\/li>\n<li>It has been over a decade since Ford started studying this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_Egyptian_revolution\">single article on English Wikipedia about the 2011 Egyptian revolution<\/a>. At the time of writing, it runs to almost 13,000 words and more than 400 citations.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than rational negotiation and broad consensus, I learned that Wikipedia articles about historic events are often the result of passionate struggle over representing what happened to whom and its consequences&#8230; Wikipedians shaped the representation of the event not by inserting falsities but rather by framing and selecting facts that supported certain narratives rather than others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-y70mar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/apr\/28\/uk-readers-may-lose-access-to-wikipedia-amid-online-safety-bill-requirements\"><strong>UK readers may lose access to Wikipedia amid online safety bill requirements<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 28 April 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">Lucy Crompton-Reid, the chief executive of Wikimedia UK, warned the popular site could be blocked because it will not carry out age verification if required to do so by the bill. Crompton-Reid told the BBC it was \u201cdefinitely possible that one of the most visited websites in the world \u2013 and a vital source of freely accessible knowledge and information for millions of people \u2013 won\u2019t be accessible to UK readers (let alone UK-based contributors)\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"smart-header smart-header--light article__header__title\">\n<p class=\"smart-header__hed smart-header__hed--size-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/v7bdba\/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart\"><strong>AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claire Woodcock, Vice.com, 2 May 2023.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__header__dek-contributions\">\n<div class=\"article__header__dek\">Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Like people who socially construct knowledge&#8221;, Professor Amy Bruckman says, &#8220;large language models are only as good as their ability to discern fact from fiction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the website, is looking into building tools to make it easier for volunteers to identify bot-generated content. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is working to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Large_language_models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft a policy that lays out the limits<\/a>\u00a0to how volunteers can use large language models to create content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openfuture.eu\/blog\/how-wikipedia-can-shape-the-future-of-ai\/\"><strong>How Wikipedia can shape the future of AI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alek Tarkowski, OpenFuture.eu blog, 4 May 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/2023\/02\/06\/better-sharing-for-generative-ai\/\">Creative Commons has been exploring<\/a>\u00a0how copyright law and tools apply to the generative AI space. Additionally, Mozilla has recently announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai\/\">the launch of Mozilla.ai<\/a><b>\u00a0And Wikipedia is already deeply embedded in the emergent AI systems, as a key component of many of the AI training datasets.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia is radically setting itself up for its own replacement by generative AI. Especially if the very models trained on Wikipedia begin to create content for the encyclopedia \u2014 quickly pushing human editors out of the loop.\u00a0However, this situation can also be seen as an opportunity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"8271\" class=\"pw-post-title eu ev ew be ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw bj\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge\/wikipedias-value-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-b19fec06bbee\">Wikipedia\u2019s value in the age of generative AI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product and Technology Officer of the Wikimedia Foundatrion, 13 July 2023.<\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cIn an internet flooded with machine generated content, this means that Wikipedia becomes\u00a0even more\u00a0valuable.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHeaderHed-NCyCC iUEiRd ezNyYX kctZMs\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem\/\"><strong>Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia&#8217;s Gender Problem<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\">Tom Simonite, Wired.com, 3rd August 2018.<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\">A software program from Primer scours news articles and scientific journals for female scientists who don&#8217;t have entries in the online encyclopedia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article__hed article__hed--\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2023\/01\/chatgpt-wikipedia-articles.html\"><strong>Should ChatGPT Be Used to Write Wikipedia Articles?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Harrison, Slate.com, 12 January 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedians like Knipel imagine that ChatGPT could be used on Wikipedia as a tool without removing the role of humanity. For them, the initial text that\u2019s generated from the chatbot is useful as a starting place or a skeletal outline. Then, the human verifies that this information is supported by reliable sources and fleshes it out with improvements. This way, Wikipedia itself does not become machine-written. Humans remain the project\u2019s special sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Lih, the Wikimedian-at-large at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and a volunteer Wikipedia editor since 2003, agreed that much of the potential for ChatGPT lies in overcoming that initial inertia and finding the \u201cactivation energy\u201d to write a new article for the encyclopedia. \u201cWikipedians are not lacking for motivation or passion, but just the time,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe always have imperfect information, and then we correct it,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the issue is the original sin of using A.I., well, I don\u2019t believe in original sin.\u201d Perhaps that\u2019s not a bad way to conceptualize this issue overall. Because generative A.I. is here to stay, it makes sense to adopt best practices and to stress the need for human supervision\u2014not ban it from the outset as the\u00a0<span class=\"slate-paragraph--tombstone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree\">fruit of the poisonous tree<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"sc-jOcvZm sc-dSOvyV fyCjbx cHiBon\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/business\/wikipedia-written-by-ai-chatbot-jimmy-wales-b1071107.html\"><strong>Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Hunt, The Evening Standard, 30 March 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe discussion in the Wikipedia community that I\u2019ve seen so far is\u2026people are cautious in the sense that we\u2019re aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because there seems like there\u2019s a lot of possibility here,\u201d Wales said.\u201cI think we\u2019re still a way away from: \u2018ChatGPT, please write a Wikipedia entry about the empire state building\u2019, but I don\u2019t know how far away we are from that, certainly closer than I would have thought two years ago,\u201d he said..<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne of the issues with the existing ChatGPT is what they call in the field \u2018hallucinating\u2019 \u2014 I call it lying,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has a tendency to just make stuff up out of thin air which is just really bad for Wikipedia \u2014 that\u2019s just not OK. We\u2019ve got to be really careful about that.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>And some (lying) advice from ChatGPT itself:<\/h3>\n<p>There are several recent articles about Wikipedia that could make for an interesting book group discussion. Here are a few options to consider:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Co-Founder of Wikipedia Has a Plan to Fix the Internet&#8221;<\/strong> by Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker (published on April 12, 2021). This article explores the vision of Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia&#8217;s co-founders, for a new decentralized internet that would be less susceptible to manipulation by corporations and governments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Wikipedia\u2019s Plan to Resist Election Day Misinformation&#8221;<\/strong> by Amanda Hess in The New York Times (published on October 29, 2020). 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