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- 50% 0f doctors have used wikipedia as a reference. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327185.500-should-you-trust-health-advice-from-the-web.html?full=true 21 comments
- AI tidies up Wikipedia's references and boosts reliability https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02894-x 87 comments
- Wikipedia Editors: Breitbart 'Should Not Be Used, Ever' as a Reference for Facts https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9qvv/wikipedia-banned-breitbart 456 comments politics
- Wikipedia Editors: Breitbart 'Should Not Be Used, Ever' as a Reference for Facts https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9qvv/wikipedia-banned-breitbart-infowars 60 comments politics
- The all-conquering Wikipedia? How the online encyclopedia is fast replacing the reference book http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/ 3 comments books
- I didn't know this existed till just now when I came across a reference to it in another Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/international_phonetic_alphabet 2 comments reddit.com
- Remove derogatory and objectionable reference from Wikipedia about Shambhaji Maharaj: Fadnavis https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra/remove-derogatory-and-objectionable-reference-from-wikipedia-about-sambhaji-maharaj-fadnavis-3410917 23 comments india
- A Comparative Study of Reference Reliability in Multiple Language Editions of Wikipedia https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3583780.3615254 3 comments science
- Analysis of over 40 million articles and over 200 million references in Wikipedia to find the most popular and reliable sources https://medium.com/wikipedia-quality/research-on-information-quality-and-reliability-of-sources-in-wikipedia-9e51ea7b939e 7 comments compsci
- Apparently Wikipedia has a whole article dedicated to the idea of referring to category theory as "abstract nonsense". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/abstract_nonsense 96 comments math
- Measuring the quality of scientific references in Wikipedia: an analysis of more than 80M citations to over 800,000 scientific articles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.031765v1 3 comments science
- Tory Brexiteer MP appears to edit his own Wikipedia page to remove EU grant reference https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-edit-wikipedia-page-brexit-stuart-anderson-eu-grant-a9278881.html 3 comments europe
- The baseball-related Wikipedia article with the most references is "2015 Los Angeles Dodgers season," with 385 citations. This ranks just above "Abraham Lincoln" (383) and just below "Jehovah's Witnesses" (391). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:articles_with_the_most_references 33 comments baseball
- Why Is Wikipedia Scrubbing All References To Neil Tyson's Fabrication? http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/18/why-is-wikipedia-deleting-all-references-to-neil-tysons-fabrication/ 7 comments science
- The best information sources of Wikipedia. The database contains assessment results of millions of websites based on analysis of 336 million references from over 60 million Wikipedia articles in different languages in October 2023. https://bestref.net 2 comments internetisbeautiful
- Due to a recent vulnerability discovered, the English Wikipedia article for Supersingular isogeny key exchange now refers to SIDH in the past tense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_key_exchange 20 comments crypto
- In Nov 2014, Gmaxwell Advocated for the Deletion of Andreas' Wikipedia Page: *'''Delete''' I'm one of the developers of the Bitcoin reference software (and a long time Wikipedia user) and probably wouldn't know who this person was outside of using reddit; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Andreas_Antonopoulos&diff=prev&oldid=632477576 89 comments btc
- Only 2.6 percent of references in English Wikipedia link to scientific publications. The share of scientific sources may range from 0.3% to 6.6% depending on the language version of Wikipedia. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050922012777 88 comments science
- Wikipedia Editors: Breitbart 'Should Not Be Used, Ever' as a Reference for Facts - Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can’t be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.” https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9qvv/wikipedia-banned-breitbart-infowars 113 comments technology
- The wikipedia history of "tar baby-" no edits since July, but over a dozen since Rep. Lambert used it to refer to Obama. The most prolific IP address in the edit history originates from DC. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=tar_baby&action=history 117 comments politics
- Identifying Reliable Sources of Information about Companies in Multilingual Wikipedia: the study presents the result of identification of reliable sources of information based on the analysis of over 200 million references https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9908858/ 6 comments science
- The 2017 St. Louis Cardinals Wikipedia page is insane, featuring everything from irrelevant facts about "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to a written report of every minor injury designation. It uses 289 sourced references and was almost entirely made from one account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_st._louis_cardinals_season 17 comments baseball
- Study investigated 516,586 Wikipedia articles related to various companies in 310 language versions and compiled a ranking of reliable sources of information based on all extracted references. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29570-6_3 6 comments science
- Wikipedia entry for Bitcoin Cash doesn't actually describe what it actually is and is obviously written in a way to slander / undermine it, refers to it as a spin-off and Bcash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash 78 comments btc
- Understanding the Use of Scientific References in Multilingual Wikipedia across Various Topics. Results showed that Wikipedia articles related to Chemistry, Space, Physics, Biology, Medicine and Health have the highest Sci score. The lowest - Video games, Music, Television, Films. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705092301551X 4 comments science
- Tory Brexiteer MP appears to edit his own Wikipedia page to remove reference to EU grant and unlawful payments - Stuart Anderson, who became the MP for Wolverhampton South West last month, seemingly removed the potentially damning information from the site days after being elected. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-edit-wikipedia-page-brexit-stuart-anderson-eu-grant-a9278881.html 52 comments worldnews
- Baseball Reference on Twitter: "The Play Index is free thru 4/15! Use code "analytics" to try the most powerful research tool this side of Wikipedia https://t.co/Rq9M1lOOsJ" https://twitter.com/baseball_ref/status/715233434889822208 10 comments baseball