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- Wikipedia Is Covering the War in Israel and Gaza Better Than X https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/wikipedia-elon-musk-gaza-hamas-israel-x-twitter-dispute.html 39 comments
- The Wikipedia war over Paul Revere http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/0_if_by_land_1_if_by_sea_sarah_palin_supporters_tr.php 33 comments
- The edit wars-How Wikipedia earned the ire of the Hindu Right https://caravanmagazine.in/media/wikipedia-earned-ire-hindu-right 3 comments india
- Russian Pro-War Pop Star's Thesis Heavily Plagiarized From Wikipedia – Dissernet https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/07/russian-pro-war-pop-stars-thesis-heavily-plagiarized-from-wikipedia-dissernet-a83023 13 comments worldnews
- Mariners majority owner John Stanton is in the middle of a Wikipedia edit war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Stanton 3 comments baseball
- Cognitive Distortions — How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence. https://quillette.com/2022/07/18/cognitive-distortions/ 44 comments cogsci
- Russian Search Engines to Label Wikipedia as ‘War Fakes’ Spreader - The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/21/russian-search-engines-to-label-wikipedia-as-war-fakes-spreader-a78363 21 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia fights Russian order to remove Ukraine war information https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wikipedia-fights-russian-order-remove-ukraine-war-information-2022-06-13/ 14 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia fights Russian order to remove Ukraine war information https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wikipedia-fights-russian-order-remove-ukraine-war-information-2022-06-13/ 197 comments worldnews
- TIL Wikipedia has a page on it's 'Lamest Edit Wars'. And there's a lot of wrestling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars 199 comments squaredcircle
- The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet https://www.fastcompany.com/90692176/chinese-wikipedia 28 comments technews
- A vicious culture war is tearing through Wikipedia https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-culture-war 46 comments technology
- A vicious culture war is tearing through Wikipedia https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-culture-war 6 comments india
- There's a War Going on Kamala Harris' Wikipedia Page, Unflattering Elements Vanishing. Similar to Previous VP Nominees in Recent History https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/kamala-harris-wikipedia/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social&fbclid=iwar0otib0_1swfcnsxakkysaljy_1wtg8l8vensfdohmz6mbhqayudsgx4a4 5 comments politics
- There’s a war going on over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia page, with unflattering elements vanishing https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/kamala-harris-wikipedia/ 5 comments politics
- The 2015 Eurovision Song Contest is included in Wikipedia’s list of Russo-Swedish wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_wars_between_russia_and_sweden 4 comments europe
- Wikipedia’s civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online. Findings suggest that even ideologically opposed people can cooperate when working towards a meaningful goal, and that to make this happen both parties need to agree to a common set of rules https://www.newscientist.com/article/2195577-wikipedias-civil-wars-show-how-we-can-heal-ideological-divides-online/?utm_campaign=rss%7Cnsns&utm_source=nsns&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=news 3 comments science
- The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war 8 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war 7 comments technology
- Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Entry Is a War Zone https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/donald-trump-wikipedia-page.html 9 comments politics
- The Wikipedia Article for "Work (Physics)" features several pictures of an MLB pitcher as an example. He is said to be doing positive work on the ball. However, this player had -.5 WAR that year and he kinda sucked in the game in the picture. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/8onv3v/the_wikipedia_article_for_work_physics_features/ 6 comments baseball
- A look at a Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners and journalists https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/ 5 comments technology
- Breitbart Declares War on Wikipedia as Encyclopedia Gets Drafted Into Facebook's 'Fake News' Battle https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-breitbart-declares-war-on-wikipedia-in-facebook-s-fight-against-fake-news-1.5991915 47 comments politics
- There is a huge edit war on Wikipedia where trolls like the user "Jtbobwaysf" are trying very hard to inject the word "bcash" into Bitcoin Cash pages and reverting/editing other pages that speak factually poorly on topics such as Lightning Network, Segwit, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#aka_Bcash 146 comments btc
- Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/wikipedia-bot-editing-war-study 4 comments technology
- Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/wikipedia-bot-editing-war-study 4 comments nottheonion
- Jon Matonis: "There is a Wikipedia edit war now going on to remove terms "permissionless" and "bitcoin" from the blockchain entry" (X-post). https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4eaujw/jon_matonis_there_is_a_wikipedia_edit_war_now/ 3 comments btc
- Greg Maxwell's Wikipedia War - or he how learned to stop worrying and love the sock puppet https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=36639732#User:Gmaxwell 7 comments btc
- Edit Wars Reveal The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia: George W Bush is #1 http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517101/edit-wars-reveal-the-10-most-controversial-topics-on-wikipedia/ 6 comments politics
- British World War Two propaganda artworks released on Wikipedia - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/9333793/british-world-war-two-propaganda-artworks-released-on-wikipedia.html 3 comments history
- There is a small war going on at Wikipedia over a DMCA takedown notice for the PCI bus specification article https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/talk:conventional_pci 4 comments reddit.com
- TIL there is a set of books that includes every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, The Iraq War, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages. http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/ 7 comments books
- James Bridle documented all changes made to the Iraq War's Wikipedia entry for 5 yrs. Ended up being the size of a set of encyclopedias. Awesome audio interview. http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2011/04/22/segments/159178?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24%7Bfeed%7D&utm_campaign=feed%3A+%24%7Botm%7D+%28%24%7Bon+the+media%7D%29 3 comments politics
- McCain Plagiarizes Wikipedia in Speech on Russia-Georgia War http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-plagiari.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Wikipedia is the latest battleground in the Mohammed Picture Wars http://www.reason.com/blog/show/124844.html 4 comments politics
- The Wikipedia Wars Erupt http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-webscout30sep30,0,344107.story?coll=la-home-center 123 comments reddit.com
- The Lamest Edit Wars of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:lew 4 comments reddit.com
- Wikipedia Wars: It's all the rage (explained in comment) http://reddit.com/info/1730c/comments 2 comments reddit.com
- Why is Wikipedia Launching a Tariff War? http://www.byrneseyeview.com/marketview/why_is_wikipedia_launching_a_t.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Wal-marts Wikipedia War http://www.whitedust.net/article/55/wal-marts_wikipedia_war/ 8 comments reddit.com