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- Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym https://gwern.net/tla 112 comments
- She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed 2 comments
- Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006) http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia 68 comments
- Wikipedia: re-writing history http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/10/12/wikipedia-re-writing-history/ 2 comments
- Who Writes Wikipedia? http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia 55 comments
- Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fravia 15 comments
- She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/She 26 comments china
- Some guy is editing one of Imran Khan's wikipedia pages and writing slanderous stuff about his family with no sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Imran_Khan 28 comments pakistan
- Africans Are Being Empowered to Write and Edit Wikipedia Articles About Their Own Countries and Culture https://newsnblogs.com/africans-are-being-empowered-to-write-and-edit-wikipedia-articles-about/ 16 comments worldnews
- Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English | Scots is an official language of Scotland. An administrator of the Scots Wikipedia page is an American who doesn't speak Scots but simply tries to write in a Scottish accent. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqy8x/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-written-by-american-in-mangled-english 30 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia writes to IT Minister: New govt guidelines will severely disrupt our model https://indianexpress.com/article/india/wikipedia-it-minister-govt-guidelines-ravi-shankar-prasad-6190872/ 16 comments india
- Lindores Abbey Chess games: Can somebody please write about this and contribute it to the wikipedia article? https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/bucb3l/lindores_abbey_chess_games_can_somebody_please/ 4 comments chess
- China is recruiting 20,000 people to write its own Wikipedia https://news.vice.com/story/china-is-recruiting-20000-people-to-write-its-own-wikipedia 279 comments worldnews
- Do some editors of Indian Wikipedia content not know how to write high quality content? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittorgarh_Fort 15 comments india
- Professor Plagiarizes Wikipedia To Write Textbook http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/14/professor-plagiarizes-wikipedia-to-write-textbook/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales advice on how startups should write an email to him if they want a response. http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-things-we-can-do-to-get-Jimmy-Wales-to-talk-to-us-and-work-on-a-startup-with-us-if-we-have-awesome-startup-ideas 40 comments startups
- Pro-fascist ideologues take over Croatian Wikipedia, re-write history http://www.dailydot.com/politics/croatian-wikipedia-fascist-takeover-controversy-right-wing/ 4 comments worldnews
- Maher: ‘Religion, it’s like Wikipedia. Anyone can write something in.’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/23/maher-religion-its-like-wikipedia-anyone-can-write-something-in 8 comments politics
- Writing systems of the world, with writing of "Wikipedia" in each (note that the file is in Japanese. Still interesting anyway) http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/images/writingsystemsoftheworld_ja.png 82 comments linguistics
- Hey Reddit, Write to Google and Wikipedia letting them know that we appreciated their actions during the SOPA/PIPA Blackout, and that we still need their support now! https://services.google.com/fb/forms/sharesuccess/ 10 comments technology
- Silvio Berlusconi is creating a law to force anyone to "modify articles if the person you're writing about (mainly him) does not like what you have written". Wikipedia Italy has shutdown and put a protest homepage. (google transalted) http://translate.google.it/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=it&ie=utf-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2Fwikipedia%3Acomunicato_4_ottobre_2011&act=url 7 comments reddit.com
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Football ---> If you ever wanted to help out writing articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:wikiproject_football 3 comments soccer
- Wikipedia article on Reaganomics. Let's read this and then write our own opinions/summaries/ideas. Please let us know if you were actually around in 1981 and how you felt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reaganomics 16 comments politics
- Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway? http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/who-the-hell-writes-wikipedia-anyway 3 comments technology
- "In spite of his overt idiocy, Beavis possesses a number of character strengths." (Who the fuck is writing these wikipedia articles?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/beavis 2 comments reddit.com
- A Pro-Israel Group is Planning to Re-Write Wikipedia's Entry on Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9474.shtml 9 comments worldnews
- NYTimes is asking its readers if they trust wikipedia. I propose an experiment: Pick a topic you know really well, look it up on Wikipedia and write here how accurate you found the article. http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/03/17/technology/17wikipedia.html 9 comments reddit.com
- What do writers do when on strike from their day jobs? They write unnecessarily detailed wikipedia articles, that's what. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2007_writers_guild_of_america_strike 58 comments reddit.com
- Students Assigned to Write Wikipedia Articles http://www.physorg.com/news113071167.html 9 comments reddit.com
- EA re-writes its history on Wikipedia http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48482 3 comments reddit.com
- Who Writes Wikipedia? http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia 32 comments reddit.com
- Is Writing More Important Than Programming (comparison of making a contribution to Linux or Wikipedia; funny graph included) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000616.html 14 comments programming
- Meet a few of the tens of thousands of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia, the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation who maintain Wikipedia's infrastructure, and donors who make this work possible. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/thank_you_all 6 comments technology