Wikipedia:Press coverage 2018
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Please list coverage about Wikipedia itself here, by month.
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- Cf. press list kept on Meta: meta:Communications committee/Press clippings
January
- {{cite news|last=Benjakob|first=Omer|title=How Crazy Was Last Year? The 15 Most Controversial Wikipedia Articles Paint a Dark Picture|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-the-15-most-controversial-wikipedia-pages-of-2017-1.5730022|newspaper=Haaretz|date=10 January 2018|accessdate=16 January 2018|quote=While the likes of Game of Thrones and The Crown were among the most viewed Wiki pages last year, the real intrigue lay in the articles that caused the most dispute}}
- {{cite news|last=Rosenberg|first=Yair|title=How Some Wikipedia Editors Tried—and Failed—To Erase The UK Labour Party's Anti-Semitism Problem|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/252972/how-some-wikipedia-editors-tried-and-failed-to-erase-the-uk-labour-partys-anti-semitism-problem|newspaper=Tablet|date=10 January 2018|accessdate=12 January 2018|language=English|quote="Last month, these enterprising editors attempted to delete the entire "Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party" page from the online encyclopedia.": "Having failed to remove the evidence of Labour's anti-Semitism outright, the activist editors moved instead to obfuscate it. A proposal was put forward to rename the page “Labour party (UK) antisemitism allegations,” thus casting doubt on the existence of this well-documented prejudice in the party."; "Tellingly, the word “anti-Semitism” does not appear on Jeremy Corbyn’s own extensive Wikipedia page, despite the fact that it has been a defining issue of his leadership tenure."}}
- {{cite news|title=The Wikipedia edit war over UCF's national title|url=https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/01/17/ucf-national-championship-claim-wikipedia-page|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Sports Illustrated|date=17 January 2018|language=en|last1=Apstein|first1=Stephanie|quote=Fried, himself a Wikipedia editor since high school, knew it would get contentious. He flew back to campus from the Peach Bowl, checked the 2017 UCF Knights football team page, saw the disruption (at one point there was an edit every 97 seconds) and submitted a request for an administrator to block modifications from unregistered users. }}
- {{cite news|last=Tracy|first=David|title=The Story Behind The Honda Ridgeline's Wildly, Unusually Detailed Wikipedia Page |url=https://jalopnik.com/the-story-behind-the-honda-ridgelines-wildly-unusually-1821813634|newspaper=Jalopnik|date=24 January 2018|accessdate=1 February 2018|language=en |quote="Nearly every car has a page on Wikipedia, but the one for the Honda Ridgeline stands above most... It’s deeply nerdy and lovely and wonderful. When I discovered this page, I had to know who was behind it all."}}
- {{cite news|last=Benjakob|first=Omer|title=Donald Trump a Zionist? For One Month, Wikipedia Claimed He Was|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-a-zionist-for-one-month-wikipedia-claimed-he-was-1.5770561|newspaper=Haaretz|date=29 January 2018|accessdate=15 March 2018|quote=Where would the Zionist movement be without Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion? Where would the Hebrew language – a key force in cultivating Jewish national sentiment – be without the witty words of Sholem Aleichem or the army of neologisms forged by Eliezer Ben Yehuda? And where would the Jewish people be, of course, without ... Donald J. Trump?}}
- {{cite news
|last=Luyt
|first=Brendan
|title=Representing African cities in Wikipedia
|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0266666918756171
|newspaper=Information Development
|date=30 January 2018
|accessdate=25 May 2018
|quote=My aim is to explore the representations of two of the largest sub-Saharan African cities, Lagos and Kinshasa, in their respective Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has been described as the encyclopaedia anyone can edit, suggesting that it is open to multiple perspectives on any particular topic.
}}
- {{cite news|title=Okayama Pref. lawmakers copied Wikipedia entries in official reports on US trip|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180131/p2a/00m/0na/015000c|newspaper=The Mainichi|date=31 January 2018|accessdate=31 January 2018|language=en |quote="Okayama Prefectural Assembly members submitted reports with ... many of [which] included passages identical to those on Wikipedia, while more than half contained the same typographical error, suggesting the assembly members may have copied and pasted sections of their reports from internet sources..."}}
- {{cite news
|last=Modiri
|first=Omeed
|title=Readability and quality of wikipedia pages on neurosurgical topics
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303846718300271?via%3Dihub
|newspaper=Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|date=31 January 2018
|accessdate=31 July 2020
|language=en
|quote=Our analyses demonstrated that Wikipedia articles related to neurosurgical topics are associated with higher grade levels for reading and also below the expected levels of clear communications for patients.
}}
February
- {{cite news|last=Adler|first=T.D.|title=Five of the Best Examples of Left-wing Bias on Wikipedia in 2017|url=http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/01/five-of-the-best-examples-of-left-wing-bias-on-wikipedia-in-2017/|newspaper=Breitbart|date=1 February 2018|accessdate=18 April 2018|quote=A look back on five of the biggest cases of political bias that gripped the site in 2017 should discourage anyone from looking to Wikipedia as a source for reliable and neutral information on the political topics of the day.}}
- {{cite news | last=Feldman | first=Jacob | title = Maybe ‘Dilly Dilly’ Is What America Needs in 2018
| work = Sports Illustrated
| url = https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02/02/super-bowl-52-commercials-dilly-dilly-bud-light-epizeuxis
| date = February 2, 2018
| quote = Hard to miss, indeed. The pithy epizeuxis debuted in August and has spread across the lips of American masses. It was briefly listed as the official motto for Ames, Iowa, on Wikipedia.
| archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20180211050639/https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02/02/super-bowl-52-commercials-dilly-dilly-bud-light-epizeuxis
| archivedate = 2018-02-11
| accessdate = 2019-08-30
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Brigo
|first=F
|title=Why do people search Wikipedia for information on multiple sclerosis?
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.msard-journal.com/article/S2211-0348(18)30047-6/fulltext
|newspaper=Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
|date=February 5, 2018
|access-date=July 31, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia searches do not reliably reflect its actual epidemiology. Celebrities with MS acting as testimonials might effectively increase public knowledge on MS.
}}
- {{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Luke|title=Review: 'Hellraiser: Judgment' Plays Like The Low-Budget 'Spawn' Reboot We've Been Promised|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lukethompson/2018/02/08/review-hellraiser-judgment-spawn-reboot/|newspaper=Forbes|date=8 February 2018|accessdate=9 February 2018|language= English|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180209032621/https://www.forbes.com/sites/lukethompson/2018/02/08/review-hellraiser-judgment-spawn-reboot/|archivedate= 9 February 2018|url-status=live|quote="Once you read the movie's Wikipedia page, which I presume was written by the filmmakers themselves, it's clear Tunnicliffe came up with a much larger mythology than he was able to fully convey onscreen. He himself plays a character named the Auditor, whom you might take for another Cenobite. But you'd be wrong! In fact, "he is part of a faction known as the Stygian Inquisition, who separate from the Order of the Gash (only one of many orders in Hell). He shares the faction with the Assessor, the Jury, the Butcher and the Surgeon. Other members, named the Bone Collectors, the Seamstress, the Sentinel, the Order of Exudation, and the Effluviam were set for introduction but were removed for budgetary reasons.""}}
- {{cite news|last=Benjakob|first=Omer|title=Judea and Samaria District? Wikipedia in Hebrew Can't Find the West Bank|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-judea-and-samaria-district-wikipedia-in-hebrew-can-t-find-it-1.5824781|newspaper=Haaretz|date=16 February 2018|accessdate=15 March 2018|quote=In theory, Jewish settlements in the West Bank constitute one of Israel’s seven administrative districts. However, the so-called “Judea and Samaria District” may not actually be a district, or at least does not have the official status of one, according to a recent discovery by Hebrew Wikipedia editors.}}
- {{cite news
|last=Barnett
|first=David
|title=Can we trust Wikipedia? 1.4 billion people can't be wrong
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/wikipedia-explained-what-is-it-trustworthy-how-work-wikimedia-2030-a8213446.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=18 February 2018
|accessdate=13 August 2018
|quote=There are Wikipedia sites in 300 different languages, with 46 million articles accessed by 1.4 billion unique devices every single month. An army of 200,000 editors and contributors patrol this repository of online knowledge every day.
}}
March
- {{cite news|last=Benjakob|first=Omer|title=Without Women or Evolution: 'Ultra-Orthodox Wikipedia' Is Literally Rewriting History|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ultra-orthodox-wikipedia-is-literally-rewriting-history-1.5866754?=&ts=_1521103523527|newspaper=Haaretz|date=1 March 2018|accessdate=15 March 2018|quote=A new initiative aimed at bringing Wikipedia to the ultra-Orthodox community is making waves in Israel due to what many take to be the crude manner it has edited out content deemed unsuitable for the community.}}
- {{cite news|title=PM Abe's Diet responses lead to Wikipedia article 'editing war'|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180303/p2a/00m/0na/003000c|newspaper=The Mainichi|date=3 March 2018|accessdate=3 March 2018|language= English|quote="it is clear that an "editing war" erupted after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempted to explain the rise in the Engel's coefficient for those living in Japan in a Jan. 31 House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting. While one side sought to alter the entry to reflect the prime minister's explanation, the other side tried to block their efforts. The battle went for a total of 19 rounds, according to the editing history log. "}}
- {{cite news|last=Brandom|first=Russell|title=How gun buffs took over Wikipedia’s AR-15 page|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17086794/ar-15-wikipedia-gun-control-parkland-mass-shooting|newspaper=The Verge|date=6 March 2018|accessdate=20 March 2018|quote=In the days after the Parkland shooting, users flocked to Wikipedia to learn about guns. When users searched for “AR-15” — the style of gun used during the shooting — they were directed to the page for the “Colt AR-15.” The page was viewed more than 200,000 times on the day after Parkland, a hundred times its usual traffic. But those users didn’t find much information about mass shootings or political efforts. In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mention of gun control at all, instead spending over a thousand words describing the technical details of the gun’s various parts.}}
- {{cite news|last=Brennan |first=David|title=Pro-Gun Group Edited AR-15 Wikipedia Page to Hide Mass Shootings|url=http://www.newsweek.com/pro-gun-group-edited-ar-15-wikipedia-page-hide-mass-shootings-834639|newspaper=Newsweek|date=7 March 2018|accessdate=20 March 2018|quote=A group of pro-gun Wikipedia editors tried to hide the true number of mass shootings associated with the AR-15 rifle in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.}}
- {{cite news|last=Airhart|first=Ellen|title=How Wikipedia Portrayed Humanity in a Single Photo|url=https://www.wired.com/story/how-wikipedia-portrayed-humanity-in-a-single-photo/|newspaper=Wired|date=10 March 2018|accessdate=11 March 2018|language= English|quote="The crowdsourced encyclopedia, in theory, offers a solution to the problem of representation; no single writer has control over the way in which a subject is presented. But still: They had to choose a single image to lead the human entry. And whatever photo they went with would inevitably leave out most of the diversity and cultural nuance that makes humanity beautiful and interesting. At first, they chose the Pioneer plaque, which stayed in its privileged position for about five years. But the editors weren't satisfied. Hundreds of pages of discussion reveal a group of people desperately trying to understand their own ignorance, and make amends for the known unknowns."}}
- {{cite news|last=Ward|first=Justin|title=Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/12/wikipedia-wars-inside-fight-against-far-right-editors-vandals-and-sock-puppets|newspaper=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=12 March 2018|accessdate=15 March 2018|language= English|quote="With more than five million articles, it is the world’s go-to source for all kinds of information. However, the free encyclopedia’s openness and anonymity leave it vulnerable to manipulation by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and racist academics seeking a wider audience for extreme views."}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube will use Wikipedia to help solve its conspiracy theory problem|author=Solon, Olivia|date=March 13, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/13/youtube-wikipedia-flag-conspiracy-theory-videos|quote=It is not clear how the Wikipedia unit will help during these kinds of breaking news events, since it will depend on YouTube being on top of new conspiracy theories emerging on the platform...}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube will add Wikipedia links debunking conspiracy theory videos|author=D'Onfro, Jillian|date=March 13, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|publisher=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/13/youtube-wikipedia-links-debunk-conspiracy.html|quote=Google-owned YouTube is trying to combat the amount of misinformation spread on its site, announcing that it will link videos that promote conspiracy theories to "fact-based" sites like Wikipedia pages.}}
- {{cite news|title=Google offers olive branch to newspapers, YouTube relies on Wikipedia|author=Ingram, Mathew|date=March 14, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|newspaper=Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/google-offers-olive-branch-to-newspapers-youtube-relies-on-wikipedia.php|quote=YouTube said Wikipedia links are just the first step in solving the problem and that it plans to do more, but it seems a little unfair to take advantage of a free resource when Google itself could be trying harder to flag or identify disinformation.}}
- {{cite news|last=Farokhmanesh|first=Megan|title=YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/youtube-didnt-tell-wikipedia-about-its-plans-for-wikipedia.html|newspaper=CNBC|date=14 March 2018|accessdate=15 March 2018|language= English|quote="At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information from Wikipedia to conspiracy-related videos within the next few weeks."}}
- {{cite news|last=Mendelsohn|first=Jennifer|last2=Shulman|first2=Peter A.|title=How social media spread a historical lie|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/15/how-social-media-spread-a-historical-lie|newspaper=Washington Post|date=15 March 2018|accessdate=5 April 2018|language=en|quote=The truth about the complicated racial legacies of both parties — and the Klan’s influence on them in 1924 — has been perniciously contorted by activists deploying digital tricks, abetted (often unwittingly) by good-faith actors such as academics, journalists and volunteer Wikipedia editors. What’s left is a fake historical “fact” that has been “verified” by powerful digital properties such as Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and various online publishers without being true. Which reflects one actual truth: Now, not only can partisans and malicious actors manufacture fake news, but they can falsify history as well.}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube’s Wikipedia Partnership Doesn’t Solve Either Site’s Fact Checking Issues|url=http://observer.com/2018/03/youtube-wikipedia-fake-news-conspiracy-theories-fact-checking/|author=Bonazzo, John|date=March 15, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|publisher=Observer Media|newspaper=Observer|quote=Given that Wikipedia is still working out its own fact checking procedures, it may not be the cure-all YouTube thinks it is.}}
- {{cite news|last=Feldman|first=Brian|title=Why Wikipedia Works|url=http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html|newspaper=New York Magazine|date=16 March 2018|accessdate=6 April 2018|quote=But the fact that YouTube sees Wikipedia as a reliable source is also, in a sense, a total validation of Wikipedia’s mission. A encyclopedia, open to edits from anyone, could easily have been misused and abused. Instead, it’s become the default place to find facts online. }}
- {{cite news|last1=Wang|first1=Shan|title=Why do people go to Wikipedia? A survey suggests it’s their desire to go down that random rabbithole|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/why-do-people-go-to-wikipedia-a-survey-suggests-its-their-desire-to-go-down-that-random-rabbithole/|accessdate=15 April 2018|work=NiemanLab|publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism|date=16 March 2018|quote=Thirty-five percent of Wikipedia users sampled across the 14 languages in this study said they were on the site to find a specific fact. Thirty-three percent said they were looking for an overview of a topic, while 32 percent said they wanted to get information on a topic in-depth.}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=The Wikipedia Page for St. Patrick Is Surprisingly Good
|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/why-the-wikipedia-page-for-st-patrick-is-so-good.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=16 March 2018
|accessdate=15 June 2019
|quote=So I contacted Philip Freeman to review the Wikipedia entry. Freeman is a professor at Pepperdine University and the leading scholar on the historical St. Patrick. Freeman wrote back: “I looked over the Wiki page and actually think it’s very good. It separates history from legends well. No suggestions on my part.”
}}
- {{cite news|title=Don't Ask Wikipedia to Cure the Internet|url=https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-wikipedia-content-moderation-internet/|quote=This week, however, Wikipedia's volunteer editors and the nonprofit that makes its work possible, the Wikimedia Foundation, suddenly found themselves in the news, tasked once again with providing a ground-level truth for a platform unwilling to provide one of its own.|date=16 March 2018|access-date=22 March 2018|newspaper=Wired|last=Matsakis|first=Louise}}
- {{cite news|last=Benjakob|first=Omer|title=Gun Enthusiasts Are Waging a War of Attrition on Wikipedia, and It Looks Like They're Winning|url=https://www.haaretz.com/life/how-firearm-enthusiasts-control-what-you-read-about-guns-on-wikipedia-1.5910470|newspaper=Haaretz|date=18 March 2018|accessdate=20 March 2018|quote="The online technology magazine The Verge published the results of its investigation last week regarding the Wikipedia article on the AR-15 rifle, a current focus of the gun-control debate in the United States. The story, by Russel Brandom, showed how a small and dedicated group of gun enthusiasts managed to shape the article to fit their agenda, in a case that sheds light on how political interests groups can easily coalesce on Wikipedia."}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube's Conspiracy Theory Problem Is Its Own, Not Wikipedia's|author=Hills, Megan C.|date=March 18, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|newspaper=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/meganhills1/2018/03/18/youtube-conspiracy-videos/|quote=YouTube can't just absolve itself of responsibility by pointing the problem away from itself and in Wikipedia's direction...}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube May Add to the Burdens of Humble Wikipedia|author=Herrman, John|date=March 19, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/business/media/youtube-wikipedia.html|quote="...YouTube’s chief executive, Susan Wojcicki, announced that the company she leads would enlist Wikipedia’s help to deal with the proliferation of conspiracy theories and misinformation on its platform."}}
- {{cite news|title=YouTube wants the news audience, but not the responsibility|author=Ingram, Mathew|date=March 19, 2018|accessdate=March 20, 2018|newspaper=Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://www.cjr.org/innovations/youtube-wants-the-news-audience-but-not-the-responsibility.php|quote=Google has argued it doesn’t play as big a role in spreading fake news as Facebook or Twitter. This is more than a little disingenuous.}}
- {{cite news|last=Swamy|first=Madhu V|title=Do You Actually Need A Wikipedia Page for Your Business?|url=http://customerthink.com/do-you-actually-need-a-wikipedia-page-for-your-business/|newspaper=Customer Think|date=March 28, 2018|accessdate=March 29, 2018|quote=From Twitter to Facebook, businesses now have plenty of avenues to drive torrents of traffic, generate tons of sales-ready leads and boost overall revenue. But here’s the BIG QUESTION: Should businesses use Wikipedia for driving traffic, leads and sales? The ANSWER is a resounding YES!}}
- {{cite news|last=Bernick|first=Michael|title=The Power Of The Wikimedia Movement Beyond Wikimedia|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/03/28/the-power-of-the-wikimedia-movement-beyond-wikimedia/|newspaper=Forbes|date=28 March 2018|accessdate=29 March 2018|quote=We the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have in the world in the next decades. Our aim was to identify a common strategic direction that would unite and inspire people across our movement on our way to 2030, and help us make decisions.}}
- {{cite news
|last=Milekic
|first=Sven
|title=Croatian Wikipedia Removes ‘Polish Genocide of Germans’ Claim
|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-wikipedia-removed-claims-on-polish-genocide-over-germans-03-29-2018
|newspaper=Balkan Insight
|date=29 March 2018
|accessdate=10 September 2018
|quote=After media again highlighted falsehoods on Croatian Wikipedia, it removed a claim that Adolf Hitler attacked Poland in 1939 because Poles committed genocide against Germans in the country.
}}
April
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=Facebook Launches New Feature, Enlisting Wikipedia to Fight 'Fake News'
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-facebook-launches-new-feature-enlisting-wikipedia-to-fight-fake-news-1.5976283
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=4 April 2018
|accessdate=6 April 2018
|quote=After revealing election-time operations by Russian-linked accounts, Facebook enlists Wikipedia to kill what it dubs as junk news – but is the crowdsourced encyclopedia enough?
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Grigonis
|first=Hillary
|title=Facebook’s new fake news tool is partially powered by Wikipedia
|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-about-this-article-wikipedia/
|newspaper=Digital Trends
|date=4 April 2018
|accessdate=6 April 2018
|quote=Facebook is launching new tools to help users better assess news sources — by using the crowdsourced Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Kozlowska
|first=Hanna
|title=Facebook has introduced another half-baked effort to fight fake news
|url=https://qz.com/1244088/facebook-has-introduced-another-half-baked-effort-to-fight-fake-news/
|newspaper=Quartz
|date=4 April 2018
|accessdate=6 April 2018
|quote=But there are several issues with this effort to provide users with more context. For one, the information about the publisher comes from Wikipedia. While the internet encyclopedia has become an increasingly reliable source of information, it’s still crowdsourced, and can be edited to suit one bias or another.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Bokhari
|first=Allum
|title=Facebook Labels All Breitbart Stories ‘Intentionally Misleading’ with Wikipedia Pop-Up
|url=http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/04/facebook-tries-to-discredit-breitbart-news-by-attaching-wikipedia-smear-job-to-links/
|newspaper=Breitbart
|date=4 April 2018
|accessdate=6 April 2018
|quote=Facebook is displaying a link to Wikipedia’s smear-job description of Breitbart News next to all Breitbart articles shared on the site. The linked Wikipedia article describes Breitbart as a “far-right site” that publishes “falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories.”
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harding
|first=Luke
|title=Former Trump aide approved 'black ops' to help Ukraine president
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-approved-black-ops-to-help-ukraine-president
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=5 April 2018
|accessdate=18 April 2018
|quote=Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort authorised a secret media operation on behalf of Ukraine’s former president featuring “black ops”, “placed” articles in the Wall Street Journal and US websites and anonymous briefings against Hillary Clinton.... The strategies included: Proposing to rewrite Wikipedia entries to smear a key opponent of the then Ukrainian president.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=Breitbart Declares War on Wikipedia as Encyclopedia Gets Drafted Into Facebook's 'Fake News' Battle
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-breitbart-declares-war-on-wikipedia-in-facebook-s-fight-against-fake-news-1.5991915
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=11 April 2018
|accessdate=16 April 2018
|quote=Breitbart News has declared war on Wikipedia, following Facebook’s introduction of a new feature that uses the free encyclopedia to combat “fake news” being spread on the social media site. The Facebook tool, launched last week, poses arguably the greatest test in years to the volunteer-run online encyclopedia, constituting a massive threat to the internet’s largest and ostensibly most trusted source of free knowledge.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=FHM Staff
|first=
|title=LOOK: Mocha Uson’s Wikipedia Entry Now Lists All The Fake News She's Posted
|url=https://www.fhm.com.ph/trending/mocha-wiki-page-a89-20180411
|newspaper=FHM
|date=April 12, 2018
|quote=An eagle-eyed Reddit user has discovered that Mocha Uson’s Wikipedia entry now has a list of all the fake news and misleading information she has shared on her social media accounts.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=INQPOP! Staff
|first=
|title=Wikipedia keeps ‘receipts’ of Mocha Uson’s fake news with an updated list
|url=http://pop.inquirer.net/2018/04/mocha-uson-wikipedia-fake-news-list/
|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer
|date=April 12, 2018
|quote=Dubbed as the “fake news queen” by netizens, Uson has quite a record of fake news and misinformation, and Wikipedia seems to be keeping a list.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Manglinong
|first=Dan
|title=A ‘fake news’ list and an edit war on Mocha Uson’s Wikipedia page
|url=http://www.interaksyon.com/a-fake-news-list-and-an-edit-war-on-mocha-usons-wikipedia-page/
|newspaper=InterAksyon
|date=12 April 2018
|accessdate=13 April 2018
|language=en
|quote=Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson’s Wikipedia page has been edited to include a list of incidents of supposed false information attributed to her that circulated on social media.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Barreiro
|first=Victor Jr.
|title=Mocha Uson's Wikipedia page locked down after editing war
|url=https://www.rappler.com/technology/news/200145-mocha-uson-wikipedia-locked-down-edit-vandalism
|newspaper=Rappler
|date=13 April 2018
|accessdate=13 April 2018
|language=en
|quote=The Wikipedia page of Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson has been locked down to prevent further revisions, following repeated attempts to amend or completely delete a subsection that recorded instances when Uson spread false news.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=de Guzman
|first=Chad
|title=Mocha Uson's Wikipedia page locked after 'persistent vandalism'
|url=http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/04/13/mocha-uson-editing-war-vandalism.html
|newspaper=CNN Philippines
|date=April 13, 2018
|quote=The Wikipedia page of Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux "Mocha" Uson is now locked from those who plan to edit it due to "persistent vandalism."
}}
- {{cite news
|last=
|first=
|title=Jimmy Wales: Fake news, WikiTribune and the future of journalism
|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2018/04/jimmy-wales-fake-news-wikitribune-future-journalism-180413132106568.html
|newspaper=Al Jazeera English
|date=April 13, 2018
|quote=In 2017, Wales turned his attention to a new project, "WikiTribune", a news website, which was set up to promote what it calls "evidence-based journalism" in an attempt to combat fake news.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Saseendran
|first=Sajila
|title=Now you can help Wikipedia love UAE
|url=https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/now-you-can-help-wikipedia-love-uae-1.2205644
|newspaper=Gulf News
|date=April 15, 2018
|accessdate=May 6, 2018
|quote=Dubai: Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, is running a monthlong photography campaign “Wiki Loves Emirates” in the UAE this April.
}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Benjakob
|first1=Omer
|last2=Aviram
|first2=Rona
|title=A Clockwork Wikipedia: From a Broad Perspective to a Case Study
|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0748730418768120
|newspaper=Journal of Biological Rhythms
|date=April 17, 2018
|accessdate=May 25, 2018
|quote=Using the circadian clock field as a case study, we discuss this scientific field’s representation on Wikipedia. We traced the changes made to the articles for “Circadian clock” and “Circadian rhythm” and reviewed the debates that informed them over a span of a decade, using Wikipedia’s native and third-party tools.
}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Timmons
|first1=Heather
|last2=Yanofsky
|first2=David
|title=A lie about Mike Pompeo’s Gulf War service started with an anonymous Wikipedia edit
|url=https://qz.com/1258418/mike-pompeos-gulf-war-service-lie-started-on-wikipedia/
|newspaper=Quartz
|date=April 21, 2018
|accessdate=April 22, 2018
|language=en
|quote=The situation shows how much major media outlets have come to rely on Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit that employs less than 300 people.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Morse
|first=Jack
|title=Develop your cursory knowledge even faster with Wikipedia's Page Previews
|url=https://mashable.com/2018/04/22/wikipedia-page-previews/
|newspaper=Mashable
|date=22 April 2018
|accessdate=24 April 2018
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia puts the world's collected knowledge within the reach of just a few mouse clicks. And now, thanks to a new feature called Page Previews, it takes even fewer.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Liptak
|first=Andrew
|title=Wikipedia has added page previews for easier browsing
|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17268510/wikipedia-page-previews-web-design
|newspaper=The Verge
|publisher=Vox Media
|date=22 April 2018
|accessdate=24 April 2018
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia added a useful new feature earlier this week: page previews. The Wikimedia Foundation says that it’s “one of the largest changes to desktop Wikipedia made in recent years,” and provides readers with a pop-up window that provides a bit of additional context for the article behind the link.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Robinson
|first=Sean
|title=Prosecutor’s spokesman banned, then outed for scrubbing Lindquist’s Wikipedia page
|url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article209480014.html
|newspaper=The News Tribune
|date=23 April 2018
|accessdate=26 April 2018
|quote=Anyone can edit Wikipedia. It says so right on the front page of the website, among the most visited on the planet. However, the definition of “anyone” gets iffy when a public employee uses public equipment to scrub from a Wikipedia page unfavorable references about his boss, who happens to be running for re-election.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Sedgwick
|first=Kai
|title=If You’re a Wikipedia Contributor, Owning Cryptocurrency May Be a Conflict of Interest
|url=https://news.bitcoin.com/if-youre-a-wikipedia-contributor-owning-cryptocurrency-may-be-a-conflict-of-interest/
|newspaper=bitcoin.com
|date=24 April 2018
|accessdate=25 April 2018
|quote=According to Wikipedia, any external relationship its contributors hold – including a relationship with cryptocurrency – could present a conflict of interest.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Corbett
|first=Rachel
|title=Adrian Piper Didn’t Like Her Wikipedia Page—So She Built a Subversive New One From Scratch
|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/adrian-piper-wikipedia-page-1269659
|newspaper=artnet.com
|date=25 April 2018
|accessdate=26 April 2018
|quote=In 2013, the artist Adrian Piper decided she didn’t like her Wikipedia page. It was full of inaccuracies, she felt, and fell far beneath the editorial standards of a “real” encyclopedia or an academic journal.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Walker
|first=Alex
|title=Todd Howard's Wikipedia Page Unlocks, Gets Trolled Immediately
|url=https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/04/todd-howards-wikipedia-page-unlocks-gets-trolled-immediately/
|newspaper=Kotaku
|date=26 April 2018
|accessdate=25 April 2018
|language=English
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426020345/https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/04/todd-howards-wikipedia-page-unlocks-gets-trolled-immediately/
|archivedate=26 April 2018
|url-status=
|quote=Fallout and Skyrim director Todd Howard has had a Wikipedia page on lockdown for a quite a while. Over the last 24 hours, that lock temporarily lifted - and gamers made sure to take advantage.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=Revealed: The Four Articles That Got Wikipedia Banned in Turkey
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/turkey/revealed-the-four-articles-that-got-wikipedia-banned-in-turkey-1.6032214
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=26 April 2018
|accessdate=3 May 2018
|quote=Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia exactly a year ago, citing a “coordinated smear campaign” against Turkey by the free online encyclopedia. However, Haaretz can reveal there were four specific articles that got it banned, including one relating to the president’s son-in-law.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Kozlowska
|first=Hanna
|last2=Timmons
|first2=Heather
|title=200,000 volunteers have become the fact checkers of the internet
|url=https://qz.com/1264347/wikipedias-legion-of-editors-are-its-weapon-against-fake-news/
|newspaper=Quartz
|date=27 April 2018
|accessdate=3 May 2018
|quote=Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is on the verge of adulthood. It’s the world’s fifth-most popular website, with 46 million articles in 300 languages, while having less than 300 full-time employees.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lovrien
|first=Jimmy
|title=Jimmy Lovrien column: Wikipedia, the Mexican army and me
|url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/4438138-jimmy-lovrien-column-wikipedia-mexican-army-and-me
|newspaper=Duluth News Tribune
|date=29 April 2018
|accessdate=6 May 2018
|quote=Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, I quickly deleted the Mexican army general's name, Ignacio Zaragoza, and replaced it with "Jimmy Lovrien."
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Osterlund
|first=Paul Benjamin
|title=Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia
|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17302142/wikipedia-ban-turkey-one-year-anniversary
|newspaper=The Verge
|date=30 April 2018
|accessdate=3 May 2018
|quote=When the Turkish government suddenly banned Wikipedia in late April last year, it came as little surprise to many people in the country. Access to platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp have been periodically restricted in Turkey numerous times since 2014, particularly after tumultuous events like mass demonstrations, suicide bomb attacks, or the failed coup attempt in July 2016. What’s strange is that the ban stayed. As of this Sunday, Wikipedia has been blocked in the country for a full year.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=İYİ Party vows to reopen access to Wikipedia if elected
|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/iyi-party-vows-to-reopen-access-to-wikipedia-if-elected-131103
|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News
|date=30 April 2018
|accessdate=3 May 2018
|quote=The opposition İYİ (Good) Party on April 30 vowed to host the “reopening of Wikipedia,” which has been banned in Turkey for over a year, a day after snap elections on June 24.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Sponagle
|first=Jane
|title=Whitehorse volunteers learn how to 'Indigenize' Wikipedia
|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/indigenize-wikipedia-yukon-1.4641511
|newspaper=CBC News
|date=30 April 2018
|accessdate=6 May 2018
|language=en
|quote=A group of Whitehorse volunteers learned to create Wikipedia pages about Yukon First Nations people, events and culture to ensure more Indigenous content was available on one of the most visited websites in the world.
}}
May
- {{cite news
|last=Matsakis
|first=Louise
|title=The most-cited authors on Wikipedia had no idea
|url=https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/
|newspaper=Wired
|date=1 May 2018
|accessdate=3 May 2018
|quote=A single academic paper, published by three Australian researchers in 2007, has been cited by Wikipedia editors over 2.8 million times—the next most popular work only shows up a little more than 21,000. And the researchers behind it didn't have a clue.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Corrine
|first=Ramey
|title=The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia’s Editors From Killing Each Other
|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-wikipedias-bickering-editors-go-to-war-its-supreme-court-steps-in-1525708429
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510024142/https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-wikipedias-bickering-editors-go-to-war-its-supreme-court-steps-in-1525708429
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2018-05-10
|newspaper=Wall Street Journal
|date=May 7, 2018
|accessdate=May 8, 2018
|language=English
|quote=“Your grammar is frankly awful,” said one editor while discussing filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s box. “This is just another throwaway, unreliable, unattributed pile of stinking horseshit,” said another editor during a dispute about actor Cary Grant’s box. Foul language flew. The arguments spiraled out of control. So another editor brought the matter to the online encyclopedia’s top jurists.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Davey
|first=Melissa
|title=Wikipedia: the most cited authors revealed to be three Australian scientists
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/07/wikipedia-the-most-cited-authors-revealed-to-be-three-australian-scientists
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=May 7, 2018
|accessdate=May 12, 2018
|quote=An academic paper on global climate zones written by three Australians more than a decade ago has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, having being referenced more than 2.8m times.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Nightingale
|first=Melissa
|title=Battle of the macrons for Wikipedia spelling of Paekākāriki
|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12048031
|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald
|date=May 9, 2018
|accessdate=May 12, 2018
|quote=A battle over the use of macrons on the Wikipedia page for a small town in Kāpiti is sparking hot debate online, even from people who don't live there.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=McKay
|first=Ron
|title=The Dirty Diary: Tilda's Polanski shame; wiki propaganda wars and Lenny's brush with the law
|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16222196.The_Dirty_Diary__Tilda_s_Polanski_shame__wiki_propaganda_wars_and_Lenny_s_brush_with_the_law/
|newspaper=The Herald (Glasgow)
|date=May 12, 2018
|accessdate=May 15, 2018
|quote=Within hours Hayward’s Wikipedia had been strafed and apparently favourable references removed. Former ambassador Craig Murray is another who claims to have come under 'obsessive attack' with his page subject to 107 detrimental changes over three days. The journalist Neil Clark has a similar story about amendments and alterations.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Guglielmi
|first=Giorgia
|title=Wikipedia’s top-cited scholarly articles — revealed
|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05161-6
|newspaper=Nature
|date=May 14, 2018
|accessdate=May 17, 2018
|quote=The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes — and many of the most popular works are referenced more times in the online encyclopaedia than they are in the scientific literature.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Grush
|first=Loren
|title=This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets
|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/15/17353194/lunar-library-wikipedia-moon-arch-foundation-astrobotic-spacex
|newspaper=The Verge
|date=May 15, 2018
|accessdate=May 15, 2018
|quote=A nonprofit with grand ambitions of setting up a library on the Moon is planning to send the entire English archive of Wikipedia to the lunar surface sometime within the next couple of years.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=Why Are Russia, WikiLeaks and the British Far Left Out to Get This 'pro-Israel' Wikipedia Editor?
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-russian-and-leftists-witch-hunt-against-pro-israel-wikipedia-editor-1.6115917
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=May 24, 2018
|accessdate=May 24, 2018
|quote=The mysterious 'Philip Cross' has raised the ire of Kremlin-backed media and far leftists, who accuse him of targeting their Wikipedia pages – even going as far as to offer a reward to anyone who can reveal his identity.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Wikipedia publishes open letter to Turkey urging end to access ban
|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wikipedia-publishes-open-letter-to-turkey-urging-end-to-access-ban-132325
|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News
|date=May 24, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia is open for improvement by anyone around the world and should be open to editors in Turkey, the Wikimedia Foundation has stated in a letter addressed to the government of Turkey, where the website has been banned for over one year.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=War on the left: Targets of relentless Wikipedia editor Philip Cross report intriguing patterns
|url=https://www.rt.com/uk/427791-cross-kamm-wikipedia-edit/
|newspaper=RT
|date=May 25, 2018
|accessdate=May 25, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia editor Philip Cross is still waging war against the left. Some of those targeted by his vexatious edits have reported patterns between him and Times columnist Oliver Kamm.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Nery
|first=John
|title=The plot against Leni Robredo
|url=http://opinion.inquirer.net/113526/plot-leni-robredo
|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer
|date=May 29, 2018
|accessdate=May 29, 2018
|language=English
|quote=Between 3:24 p.m. on April 27 and 5:24 a.m. on April 28 — or a total of 14 hours — a so-called editing war erupted on the Wikipedia page of Vice President Leni Robredo.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Parker
|first=Ryan
|title=Ambien Wikipedia Page Jokingly Updated With Roseanne Side Effects
|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ambien-wikipedia-page-jokingly-updated-roseanne-side-effects-1115675
|newspaper= The Hollywood Reporter
|date=May 30, 2018
|quote=Among the jokes being shared was an 'update' to the Ambien Wikipedia page to include new 'side effects' to the sleep aid.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Ehrenkranz
|first=Melanie
|title=Google Labeled California Republicans as Nazis After Someone Vandalized Wikipedia
|url=https://gizmodo.com/google-labeled-california-republicans-as-nazis-after-so-1826463253
|newspaper=Gizmodo
|date=May 31, 2018
|accessdate=May 31, 2018
|quote='We regret that vandalism on Wikipedia briefly appeared on our search results,' Google tweeted on Thursday in response to California congressman and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
}}
June
- {{cite news
|last=Grunin
|first=Lori
|title=Wikipedia says vandals caused Google to display Nazism as GOP ideology
|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/wikipedia-vandals-caused-google-display-nazism-gop-ideology/
|newspaper=CNET
|date=June 1, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=After search results listed Nazism as the ideology of the California Republican Party, Google pointed the finger at Wikipedia. Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia, says "vandalism" is to blame.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Sierra
|first=Antonia
|title=Sisters use podcast to find strange connections on Wikipedia
|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/technology/article212438704.html
|newspaper=The News & Observer
|date=June 3, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=Rosanna Brown and Nikki Katz host the "6 Degrees of Wiki" podcast, an online talk show that uses Wikipedia, the popular encyclopedic website with more than 6.5 million English-language entries, to connect seemingly unrelated topics in six steps.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Imran
|first=Warda
|title=Book controversy: Reham Khan's Wikipedia page locked after vandalism
|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1728234/1-book-controversy-reham-khans-wikipedia-page-locked-vandalism/
|newspaper=The Express Tribune
|date=June 5, 2018
|accessdate=June 7, 2018
|quote=Wikimedia's free online encyclopedia Wikipedia locked Reham Khan's page after more than eight attempts were made to vandalise and destroy the journalist's online presence.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Doctorow
|first=Cory
|title=The EU's Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia
|url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia
|newspaper=Electronic Frontier Foundation
|date=June 7, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=Article 13 gets Wikipedia coming and going: not only does it create opportunities for unscrupulous or incompetent people to block the sharing of Wikipedia's content beyond its bounds, it could also require Wikipedia to filter submissions to the encyclopedia and its surrounding projects, like Wikimedia Commons. The drafters of Article 13 have tried to carve Wikipedia out of the rule, but thanks to sloppy drafting, they have failed: the exemption is limited to "noncommercial activity". Every file on Wikipedia is licensed for commercial use.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Varma
|first=Devarchit
|title=Hrishikesh Kanitkar’s Wikipedia page compromised with abusive reference
|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/hrishikesh-kanitkar-s-wikipedia-page-compromised-with-abusive-reference/story-MGeIU1OZZqoOAOIPalgLcK.html
|newspaper=Hindustan Times
|date=8 June 2018
|accessdate=14 June 2018
|quote=Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who played 34 ODIs and two Tests for India towards the end of the 90s, has had his Wikipedia profile page compromised with abusive reference to his name.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Brantley
|first=Max
|title=Wikipedia: History according to Jon Woods
|url=https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2018/06/08/wikipedia-history-according-to-jon-woods
|newspaper=Arkansas Times
|date=8 June 2018
|accessdate=28 June 2018
|quote=Funny stuff underway on convicted felon Jon Woods' Wikipedia page. Currently, no mention can be found there that he was convicted of taking kickbacks in the Eccelsia College scandal. Lots of mention of the supposed conflicts of people involved in his prosecution.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Khan
|first=Sadiq
|authorlink=Sadiq Khan
|title=Why we need to close Wikipedia's gender page gap
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/need-close-wikipedias-gender-page-gap/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
|newspaper=The Telegraph
|date=June 12, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=But did you know that only 17 per cent of Wikipedia's biographies are about women? It’s a woefully inaccurate reflection of women’s achievements - and it has to change. That's why, during this year’s London Tech Week, which starts today, I have set up an ‘Edit-a-thon’ at Bloomberg’s office in the capital to try and help redress the balance.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Griswold
|first=Alex
|title=Mayor of London: There Aren’t Enough Wikipedia Bios on Women, Female Editors for Site
|url=http://freebeacon.com/issues/mayor-london-arent-enough-wikipedia-bios-women-female-editors/
|newspaper=The Washington Free Beacon
|date=June 12, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=London Mayor Sadiq Khan penned an op-ed published Tuesday in which he argued there are not enough Wikipedia biographies about women or females editing the free online encyclopedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Clark
|first=Natasha
|title=WHAT CRIME WAVE? Sadiq Khan blasted for launching new campaign for ‘Wikipedia gender equality’ – while violent crime rages in lawless London
|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6518496/sadiq-khan-blasted-for-launching-new-campaign-for-wikipedia-gender-equality-while-violent-crime-rages-in-lawless-london/
|newspaper=The Sun
|date=June 13, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=SADIQ Khan has been blasted for demanding Wikipedia close their "gender gap" - as another night of violent crime took place in London this week. Apprentice winner Michelle Dewbury called out the Mayor for his pledge to tackle the firm's unrepresentative biographies on its website, where just 17 per cent are about women.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Oberhaus
|first=Daniel
|title=Google and Wikipedia Are Making an AI-Powered Internet Beef Detector
|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbbvy/google-and-wikipedia-are-making-an-ai-powered-internet-beef-detector
|newspaper=Motherboard
|date=June 13, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia is the world’s largest, open repository of general information, but it is also a battleground.... Occasionally, this leads to “edit wars” in which Wikipedians go back and forth editing and re-editing a disputed piece of information (e.g., was Chopin Polish, French, Polish-French, or French-Polish?). This extremely prime internet beef can go on for years.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Karuppur
|first=Abhiram
|title=Ira Matetsky ’84 Helps Settle Disputes Among Wikipedia Editors
|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/ira-matetsky-84-helps-settle-disputes-among-wikipedia-editors
|newspaper=Princeton Alumni Weekly
|date=June 13, 2018
|accessdate=June 14, 2018
|quote=When Ira Matetsky ’84 started editing articles on Wikipedia, he never expected that he would one day receive a shout-out on The Colbert Report.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Coreno
|first=Annie
|title=ALA 2018 Spotlight: On Wikipedia
|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/77244-ala-2018-spotlight-on-wikipedia.html
|newspaper=Publishers Weekly
|date=June 15, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=In her new book, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (ALA Editions) Merrilee Proffitt, a Senior Program Officer at OCLC and author of the new book, looks at how librarians today are connecting with Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=This Hitler-loving Proud Pedophile Was Too Much of a Troll for Wikipedia, but Not for a Congressional Run
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-this-hitler-loving-pedophile-running-for-u-s-congress-1.6176374
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=June 15, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=A follow-up investigation by Haaretz reveals that Larson, a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” in his late 30s, who boasted online about having raped his ex-wife, and who served a one-year prison term for making death threats against President George W. Bush, also maintained a long-time presence on Wikipedia under a slew of different usernames – all of which were eventually banned.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Maher
|first=Katherine
|title=Facebook and Google must do more to support Wikipedia
|url=http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-google-youtube-facebook-support
|newspaper=Wired
|date=June 15, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=Online propagandists stoke violence, data brokers sway elections, and our most intimate personal information is for sale to the highest bidder. Faced with these difficulties, big tech is increasingly turning to Wikipedia for support.
}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Griffin
|first1=Jonathan
|last2=Kumutat
|first2=Lee
|title=Galloway's war of words with a mystery Wikipedia editor
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44495696
|newspaper=BBC News Online
|date=June 17, 2018
|accessdate=June 17, 2018
|quote='Philip Cross' has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages. But in the process he's angered anti-war activists and critics of British and Western foreign policy, who claim he's been biased against them.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Robertson
|first=Sarah
|title=Who is Philip Cross? What we know about the mysterious Wikipedia editor
|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/18/philip-cross-know-mysterious-wikipedia-editor-7640122/
|newspaper=Metro
|date=June 18, 2018
|accessdate=June 18, 2018
|quote=Cross has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages, the results of which have angered a wide range of people, who claim he's been biased against them.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Funke
|first=Daniel
|title=Wikipedia vandalism could thwart hoax-busting on Google, YouTube and Facebook
|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/wikipedia-vandalism-could-thwart-hoax-busting-google-youtube-and-facebook
|newspaper=Poynter Institute
|date=June 18, 2018
|accessdate=June 18, 2018
|quote=Given the increased visibility of Wikipedia pages, it's conceivable that vandals could flock to the platform in order to troll multiple platforms with one edit
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Burris
|first=Sarah K.
|title=Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen Google biography and Wikipedia edited to describe her as 'notorious child abuser'
|url=https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/kirstjen-nielsen-google-biography-wikipedia-edited-describe-notorious-child-abuser/
|newspaper=The Raw Story
|date=June 18, 2018
|accessdate=June 18, 2018
|quote=Nielsen's Google biography and Wikipedia link describes her as a 'a notorious child abuser currently serving as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.'
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Novak
|first=Matt
|title=America's 'Detention Centers' Added to Wikipedia List of Concentration Camps
|url=https://gizmodo.com/americas-detention-centers-added-to-wikipedia-list-of-c-1826944008
|newspaper=Gizmodo
|date=June 19, 2018
|accessdate=June 19, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, has unceremoniously added this shameful chapter of American history to its lists of concentration camps.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=Wikipedia Lists Trump’s Detention Centers as ‘Concentration Camps,’ Sparks Online War
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-wikipedia-spat-after-trump-centers-called-concentration-camps-1.6196587
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=June 20, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=A fierce battle is underway on Wikipedia after its “List of concentration and internment camps” article was updated to include the detention centers currently being used to house the children of undocumented immigrants arrested on the U.S. border.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Bach
|first=Natasha
|title=Trump's Family Border Separation Policy Is Being Fought on a New Battleground: Wikipedia's List of Concentration Camps
|url=http://fortune.com/2018/06/20/family-border-separation-trump-detention-centers-wikipedia-concentration-camps/
|newspaper=Fortune
|date=June 20, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=Bookended by Guantanamo Bay and Vietnamese “political reeducation centers,” the American detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border now appear on Wikipedia’s list of concentration camps.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lippa
|first=Nick
|title=Wikipedia workshops at Squeaky Wheel aim to recruit more female editors
|url=http://news.wbfo.org/post/wikipedia-workshops-squeaky-wheel-aim-recruit-more-female-editors
|newspaper=WBFO
|date=June 25, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia has a glaring gender disparity when it comes to editors. Less than 10% of them are women. In an effort to improve coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center has held “Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” workshops this year to teach local residents how they can contribute to the site.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Novak
|first=Matt
|title=Democratic Candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Didn't Even Have a Wikipedia Page on Monday
|url=https://gizmodo.com/democratic-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-didnt-eve-1827164042
|newspaper=Gizmodo
|date=June 27, 2018
|accessdate=June 28, 2018
|quote=Ocasio-Cortez defeated 56-year-old Joseph Crowley, a man who served ten terms and was the chair of the House Democratic Caucus. The weird part? Ocasio-Cortez didn’t even have a Wikipedia page on Monday. But she has one now.
}}
July
- {{cite news
|last=Blatchford
|first=Taylor
|title=Digital literacy project sets an ambitious goal: Wikipedia pages for 1,000 local newspapers
|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/digital-literacy-project-sets-ambitious-goal-wikipedia-pages-1000-local-newspapers
|newspaper=Poynter Institute
|date=July 3, 2018
|accessdate=July 3, 2018
|quote=Americans are more overwhelmed than ever by the news landscape, but one researcher hopes a small step will help readers evaluate sources: creating Wikipedia pages for 1,000 local news organizations.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Orlowski
|first=Andrew
|title=Call your MEP! Wikipedia blacks out for European YouTube vote
|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/03/wikipedia_article13_blackout/
|newspaper=The Register
|date=July 3, 2018
|accessdate=July 5, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia is appealing to its users to swing a knife-edge vote in the European Parliament – even though the crowdsourced encyclopaedia itself won a specific exemption from the legal changes the EU has proposed (PDF).
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Doctorow
|first=Cory
|title=Hours before a critical EU vote on mass internet censorship, European Wikipedia projects go dark
|url=https://boingboing.net/2018/07/04/one-day-left.html
|newspaper=Boing Boing
|date=July 4, 2018
|accessdate=July 4, 2018
|quote=In the runup to the vote, the Italian, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, French and Portuguese versions of Wikipedia have blacked out and replaced their pages with notes describing the directives and asking Wikipedia users to write to their MEPs.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lomas
|first=Natasha
|title=Wikipedia goes dark in Spanish, Italian ahead of key EU vote on copyright
|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/04/wikipedia-goes-dark-in-spanish-italian-ahead-of-key-eu-vote-on-copyright/?guccounter=1
|newspaper=TechCrunch
|date=July 4, 2018
|accessdate=July 5, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia’s Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia in Europe to protest against controversial components of a copyright reform package ahead of a key vote in the EU parliament tomorrow.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Asher Hamilton
|first=Isobel
|title=Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-is-protesting-new-eu-copyright-laws-with-a-blackout-2018-7?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T
|newspaper=Business Insider
|date=July 5, 2018
|accessdate=July 5, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia's Spanish, Italian, and Polish language versions blacked out in protest against new EU copyright reforms being voted upon on Thursday.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Wikipedia down in several countries in protest over EU copyright law
|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/wikipedia-down-in-several-countries-in-eu-law-protest
|newspaper=The Straits Times
|date=July 5, 2018
|accessdate=July 5, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia went down in at least three countries on Wednesday (July 4) in a protest at an upcoming European Parliament vote on a highly disputed law that could make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at EU copyright law
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44696302
|newspaper=BBC
|date=July 5, 2018
|accessdate=July 5, 2018
|quote=Italian Wikipedia blocked readers from its pages on Tuesday in protest over the future of EU online copyright law.
}}
- {{Cite news
|last = Foong
|first = Jasmine
|title = More M’sians reading Wikipedia in English than in BM, Chinese
|trans-title =
|url = https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/433316
|newspaper = Malaysiakini
|date = 9 July 2018
|access-date = December 26, 2021
|language = en
|quote = When conducting research for his Master's thesis in 2015, researcher Daniel Chong found that more than 60 percent of Malaysians read the English edition of Wikipedia as opposed to those in Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Walters
|first=Daniel
|title=Lisa Brown's husband deletes section of wife's Wikipedia page, claiming inaccuracy
|url=https://www.inlander.com/spokane/lisa-browns-husband-deletes-section-of-wifes-wikipedia-page-claiming-inaccuracy/Content?oid=10867965
|newspaper=Inlander
|date=July 12, 2018
|accessdate=July 12, 2018
|quote=Last week, a Wikipedia user deleted the section out of U.S. House candidate Lisa Brown's biography claiming that, 'in 1993, Brown voted in favor of one of the largest tax increases in the state's history.' That user? Brown's husband, local attorney Brian McClatchey.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Martin
|first=Bruno
|title=Raising the profile of female scientists, one Wikipedia article at a time
|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/10/inenglish/1531237118_130796.html
|newspaper=El País
|date=July 12, 2018
|accessdate=July 14, 2018
|quote=But Wade has another, more unusual method to increase the representation of women in science: she writes Wikipedia articles about women scientists. One every day.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Nxumalo
|first=Mphathi
|title=Agriculture minister’s profile on Wikipedia distorted
|url=https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/agriculture-ministers-profile-on-wikipedia-distorted-15971612
|newspaper=Independent Online
|date=July 12, 2018
|accessdate=July 14, 2018
|quote=The Wikipedia page for Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana appears to have been tampered with, with it stating that the minister has little understanding of the department he controls.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Cook
|first=James
|title=Top UK tech investors deemed not famous enough for Wikipedia
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/07/13/top-uk-tech-investors-deemed-not-famous-enough-wikipedia/
|newspaper=The Telegraph
|date=July 13, 2018
|accessdate=July 14, 2018
|quote=The Telegraph found that 17 Wikipedia articles about prominent UK technology companies and investors have been erased in recent months.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Wylde
|first=Kaitlyn
|title=The Wikipedia Page For “Grey Goo” Is So Creepy, You Should Definitely Read It With The Lights On
|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/the-wikipedia-page-for-grey-goo-is-so-creepy-you-should-definitely-read-it-with-the-lights-on-9749912
|newspaper=Bustle
|date=July 13, 2018
|accessdate=July 14, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia is a vast, vast place. And, amidst all of the pages for TV shows, actors, books, and historical events, there are some Wikipedia pages that are a bit... well, explainably unexplainable.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lim
|first=Naomi
|title=Former CIA chief John Brennan called a 'silly old fart' on Wikipedia page
|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-cia-chief-john-brennan-called-a-silly-old-fart-on-hacked-wikipedia-page
|newspaper= The Washington Examiner
|date=July 17, 2018
|accessdate=July 17, 2018
|quote=Former CIA Director John Brennan's Wikipedia page was edited to describe the ex-spy chief in unflattering terms one day after he criticized President Trump for the statements he made that undermined his own intelligence officials.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Stahel
|first=David
|authorlink=David Stahel
|title=The Battle for Wikipedia: The New Age of ‘Lost Victories’?
|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518046.2018.1487198
|newspaper=The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
|date=July 18, 2018
|accessdate=April 1, 2019
|quote=While the myth of the ‘clean Wehrmacht’ has long been debunked in academic circles, one of the problems in changing the popular perception has been online representations, such as Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Zahneis
|first=Megan
|title=Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia
|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Some-Colleges-Cautiously/243968
|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education
|date=July 19, 2018
|accessdate=July 19, 2018
|quote=Academics have traditionally distrusted Wikipedia, citing the inaccuracies that arise from its communally edited design and lamenting students’ tendency to sometimes plagiarize assignments from it. Now, Davis said, higher education and Wikipedia don’t seem like such strange bedfellows. At conferences these days, “everyone’s like, ‘Oh, Wikipedia, of course you guys are here.’”
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Jaki
|first=Julia
|title=Wiki foundation wants to 'decolonize the internet' with more African contributors
|url=https://www.dw.com/en/wiki-foundation-wants-to-decolonize-the-internet-with-more-african-contributors/a-44746575
|newspaper=Deutsche Welle
|date=July 19, 2018
|accessdate=September 8, 2019
|quote=Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa. The custodians of the free online encyclopedia and other Wiki resources are gathered in South Africa to talk about "decolonizing the internet."
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Markay
|first=Lachlan
|author2=Dean Sterling Jones
|title=Who Whitewashed the Wiki of Alleged Russian Spy Maria Butina?
|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-whitewashed-the-wiki-of-alleged-russian-spy-maria-butina
|newspaper=The Daily Beast
|date=July 24, 2018
|accessdate=July 24, 2018
|quote=Among the changes were attempts to expunge Butina’s page of potentially incriminating information about her ties to Alexander Torshin, a Russian central bank official on whose behalf Butina was allegedly attempting to influence and infiltrate U.S. political organizations.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Horton
|first=Alex
|title=Is Orrin Hatch dead? Let me Google that for you.
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/07/24/is-orrin-hatch-dead-let-me-google-that-for-you/
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=July 24, 2018
|accessdate=July 24, 2018
|quote=For a few hours on Sunday, the Republican lawmaker from Utah was dead at the age of 83, according to Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Devlin
|first=Hannah
|title=Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=July 24, 2018
|accessdate=July 26, 2018
|quote=Jess Wade is a scientist on a mission. She wants every woman who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve – starting with a Wikipedia entry.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Matsakis
|first=Louise
|title=The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories
|url=https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/
|newspaper=Wired
|date=July 25, 2018
|accessdate=July 25, 2018
|quote=The Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project has more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world … collectively responsible for some of the site's most heavily trafficked articles on topics like scientology, UFOs, and vaccines.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Guerrini
|first=Federico
|title=Wikipedia Releases Transparency Report And Pledges To Improve Diversity
|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2018/07/25/wikipedias-ultimate-challenge-decolonizing-internet-knowledge/
|newspaper=Forbes
|date=July 25, 2018
|accessdate=July 26, 2018
|quote=The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages Wikipedia, just released its ninth Transparency Report, which sheds light on the efforts to defend the website from any sort of censorship and user privacy invasion during the first half of 2018.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Perisic
|first=Kyle
|title=Wikipedia listed Ron Paul on ‘white supremacists’ list for three weeks before removing him
|url=http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/25/wikipedia-ron-paul-white-supremacist/
|newspaper=The Daily Caller
|date=July 26, 2018
|accessdate=July 26, 2018
|quote=A Wikipedia editor placed one of the most influential libertarian Republicans on a list of “American White Supremacists” for three weeks before it was removed Wednesday.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Zdanowicz
|first=Christina
|title=A physicist is writing one Wikipedia entry a day to recognize women in science
|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/27/health/scientist-women-wikipedia-entries-trnd/index.html
|newspaper=CNN
|date=July 26, 2018
|accessdate=August 13, 2018
|quote=When she's not working in a physics lab, one London researcher is making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time.
}}
August
- {{cite news
|last=Bokhari
|first=Allum
|title=Google Declares Angela Merkel 'Leader of the Free World'
|url=https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/03/google-declares-angela-merkel-leader-of-the-free-world/
|website=Breitbart News
|date=3 August 2018
|accessdate=7 August 2018
|quote=Thanks to its reliance on information from Wikipedia, the top Google search result for 'leader of the free world' is not the President of the United States, with whom the term is normally associated, but crisis-engulfed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Bambury
|first=Brent
|title='With my laptop and enthusiasm': This physicist is adding hundreds of women scientists to Wikipedia
|url=https://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/day-6/segment/15563927
|newspaper=CBC Radio
|date=August 3, 2018
|accessdate=August 5, 2018
|language=en
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Simonite
|first=Tom
|title=Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem
|url=https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/
|newspaper=Wired
|date=August 3, 2018
|accessdate=August 5, 2018
|quote=Quicksilver uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia, and then write fully sourced draft entries for them.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Brest
|first=Mike
|title=Activist Wikipedia Editors Forbid Any Mention Of Sarah Jeong’s Racist Tweets In Her Page
|url=http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/05/wikipedia-sarah-jeong-new-york-times/
|newspaper=The Daily Caller
|date=August 5, 2018
|accessdate=August 7, 2018
|quote=New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong’s Wikipedia page includes no mention of her racist tweets that resurfaced after her new position with the newspaper was announced, apparently because activist editors for the free online encyclopedia won’t allow any mention of her tweets.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Hitchens
|first=Peter
|authorlink=Peter Hitchens
|title=Goodbye Wikipedia, and thanks for all the laughs
|url=http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2018/08/goodbye-wikipedia-and-thanks-for-all-the-laughs.html
|newspaper= Daily Mail
|date=August 6, 2018
|accessdate=August 6, 2018
|quote=I still think Wikipedia is, on balance, a good thing. This is even though its mysterious ruling council of Wikicrats have now banned me from taking any part in editing it.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Showalter
|first=Monica
|title=Wikipedia caves, permits a tiny mention of Sarah Jeong's famous tweets
|url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/wikipedia_caves_permits_a_tiny_mention_of_sarah_jeongs_famous_tweets_on_her_wiki_page.html
|newspaper= American Thinker
|date=August 6, 2018
|accessdate=August 6, 2018
|quote=What we know now is that Sarah Jeong has some powerful allies on the internet, even at Wikipedia, and they are out there, just waiting for someone not to notice.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Chakraborty
|first=Tanmoy
|title=Wikipedia 'claims' denied
|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/wikipedia-claims-denied-250458
|newspaper=The Telegraph (Calcutta)
|date=August 7, 2018
|accessdate=August 7, 2018
|quote=The Tripura government on Monday denied that chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb was born in Bangladesh and asserted he was born in Tripura, contrary to the entry on his Wikipedia page.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Even Imran's pet dogs now have a Wikipedia page!
|url=https://nation.com.pk/07-Aug-2018/even-imrans-pet-dogs-now-have-a-wikipedia-page
|newspaper=The Nation (Pakistan)
|date=August 7, 2018
|accessdate=August 7, 2018
|quote=PTI chief and prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan is not the only one with his own Wikipedia page; his dogs have one too.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Madrigal
|first=Alexis C.
|title=Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality
|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/jeongpedia/566897/
|newspaper=The Atlantic
|date=August 7, 2018
|accessdate=August 7, 2018
|quote=The culture wars are coming for the best utopian project of the early internet. Can it survive the informational anarchy that's disrupted the rest of media?
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Adler
|first=T.D.
|title=Wikipedia Editors Protect New York Times Bigot Sarah Jeong’s Anti-White Racism
|url=https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/07/wikipedia-editors-protect-new-york-times-bigot-sarah-jeongs-anti-white-racism/
|newspaper=Breitbart
|date=August 7, 2018
|accessdate=August 8, 2018
|quote= After repeated removals led to the page being locked, leftist editors rigged discussion about the controversy, leading to a summary favoring Jeong.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Janjua
|first=Haroon
|title=Imran Khan’s dogs have their day — on Wikipedia
|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/imran-khan-s-dogs-have-their-day-on-wikipedia-lw9k79fnk
|newspaper=The Times
|date=August 7, 2018
|accessdate=August 10, 2018
|quote=Imran Khan’s dogs have been given their own Wikipedia page after his victory in the Pakistani elections. The online encyclopedia said that the page was added after a surge in the number of searches for the prime minister-elect’s pets.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Vincent
|first=James
|title=AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia
|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17663544/ai-scientists-wikipedia-primer
|newspaper=The Verge
|date=August 8, 2018
|accessdate=August 8, 2018
|quote=The software scans news stories to find overlooked figures, and even writes a draft article about them.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Verger
|first=Rob
|title=Artificial intelligence can now help write Wikipedia pages for overlooked scientists
|url=https://www.popsci.com/artificial-intelligence-scientists-wikipedia
|newspaper=Popular Science
|date=August 8, 2018
|accessdate=August 28, 2018
|quote=Plenty of prominent scientists have Wikipedia pages. But while checking to see if someone specific has a Wikipedia page is a quick Google search away, figuring out who should be on Wikipedia but isn’t—and then writing an entry for him or her—is much trickier.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=The Real Reason Sheldon Adelson's Wife Deserves a Wikipedia Page
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-the-real-reason-sheldon-adelson-s-wife-deserves-a-wikipedia-page-1.6363901
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=August 9, 2018
|accessdate=August 10, 2018
|quote=A new AI program claims it can fix Wikipedia’s gender bias by identifying – and writing articles about – deserving female scientists. But does data contain its own bias?
}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Wade
|first1=Jess
|authorlink=Jess Wade
|last2=Zaringhalam
|first2=Maryam
|title=Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia
|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8
|newspaper=Nature
|date=August 14, 2018
|accessdate=August 15, 2018
|quote=Marie Curie is one of the most famous women in science. But her first page on Wikipedia was shared with her husband — until someone pointed out that, perhaps, her scientific contributions were notable enough to warrant her own biography.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Glaser
|first=April
|title=YouTube Is Adding Fact-Check Links for Videos on Topics That Inspire Conspiracy Theories
|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/youtube-is-adding-fact-check-links-from-wikipedia-and-encyclopedia-britannica-for-videos-on-topics-that-inspire-conspiracy-theories.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=August 14, 2018
|accessdate=August 15, 2018
|quote=Banning Alex Jones isn’t the only thing YouTube is doing to stem conspiracy theories on its platform. The company recently began linking to Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica articles below some videos that cover subjects that are often muddied by misinformation.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=Who Updates Celebrity Deaths on Wikipedia?
|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/the-people-who-update-wikipedia-pages-when-celebrities-like-aretha-franklin-die.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=August 16, 2018
|accessdate=August 19, 2018
|quote=Meet the editors who race to be the first to declare a famous person dead.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Hitchens
|first=Peter
|authorlink=Peter Hitchens
|title=War of words: my battle to correct Wikipedia
|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war-of-words-my-battle-to-correct-wikipedia/
|newspaper=The Spectator
|date=August 17, 2018
|accessdate=August 17, 2018
|quote=So for some years I have stuck almost entirely to correcting errors of fact in the entry about me. These were small matters where I, probably alone in the universe, knew the truth.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Marr
|first=Bernard
|title=The Amazing Ways How Wikipedia Uses Artificial Intelligence
|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/08/17/the-amazing-ways-how-wikipedia-uses-artificial-intelligence/
|newspaper=Forbes
|date=August 17, 2018
|accessdate=August 19, 2018
|quote=The Wikipedia community, the free encyclopedia that is built from a model of openly editable content, is notorious for its toxicity.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Armstrong
|first=Stephen
|title=Inside Wikipedia's volunteer-run battle against fake news
|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fake-news-wikipedia-arbitration-committee
|newspaper=Wired
|date=August 21, 2018
|accessdate=August 21, 2018
|quote=In the era of information wars, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee is working to keep the internet honest.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Beck
|first=Lia
|title=13 Movies Based On True Stories With Wikipedia Rabbit Holes You'll Spend Hours On
|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/13-movies-based-on-true-stories-with-wikipedia-rabbit-holes-youll-spend-hours-on-10216399
|newspaper=Bustle
|date=August 23, 2018
|accessdate=August 25, 2018
|quote=Sometimes it's nice to go down a good old Wikipedia rabbit hole. You usually don't plan on doing it, but one minute you're watching The Crown, and the next thing you know you're knee deep in information about Zara Phillips' equestrian career.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Adler
|first=T.D.
|title=Wikipedia: President Trump Advocate of ‘Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theory’
|url=https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/27/wikipedia-president-trump-advocate-of-neo-nazi-conspiracy-theory/
|newspaper=Breitbart
|date=August 27, 2018
|accessdate=August 28, 2018
|quote=Editors on Wikipedia, the site relied on by the Masters of the Universe for reliable and accurate information, have added President Trump to a list of advocates for the “white genocide conspiracy theory” due to his recent tweets about South Africa farm attacks and government land expropriation.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Miller
|first=Carl
|title=Wikipedia has resisted information warfare, but could it fight off a proper attack?
|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2018/08/wikipedia-has-resisted-information-warfare-could-it-fight-proper-attack
|newspaper=New Statesman
|date=August 29, 2018
|accessdate=August 29, 2018
|quote=The online encyclopedia's openness has protected it, but a more concerted effort to interfere could turn that strength into a weakness.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Milekic
|first=Sven
|title=Croatia Wikipedia Alters Jasenovac Camp Entry Again
|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatia-wikipedia-further-disputes-research-on-jasenovac-camp-08-29-2018
|newspaper=Balkan Insight
|date=August 29, 2018
|accessdate=August 29, 2018
|quote=Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a 'collection' and 'labour camp' and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Naftule
|first=Ashley
|title=From London To Phoenix, Composing Wikipedia Is Rewriting Herstory
|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/phoenix-musicians-rewriting-womens-history-with-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-10771980
|newspaper=Phoenix New Times
|date=August 30, 2018
|accessdate=September 3, 2018
|quote="One of the things that I liked about the idea of doing this was that it's really easy to raise the profile of any artist or composer," Roche says. "You see someone has a Wikipedia profile and you take them more seriously."
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Moran
|first=Robert
|title='He wasn't Filipino': Game of Thrones star rubbishes 'whitewashing' claims
|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/he-wasn-t-filipino-game-of-thrones-star-rubbishes-whitewashing-claims-20180830-p500pe.html
|newspaper=The Canberra Times
|date=August 30, 2018
|accessdate=September 3, 2018
|quote=Peter Dinklage has defended himself against a "whitewashing" backlash over his latest role, saying his critics have used incorrect information from Wikipedia as the basis for their claims.
}}
September
- {{cite news
|last=Naughton
|first=John
|authorlink=John Naughton
|title=In a hysterical world, Wikipedia is a ray of light – and that's the truth
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/02/in-hysterical-world-wikipedia-ray-of-light-truth
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=September 2, 2018
|accessdate=September 2, 2018
|quote=It has been the butt of jokes for years, but the online encyclopedia represents mankind at its very best.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Keane
|first=Sean
|title=Wikipedia seeks photos of 20 million artifacts lost in Brazilian museum fire
|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/wikipedia-seeks-photos-of-20-million-artifacts-lost-in-brazilian-museum-fire/
|newspaper=CNET
|date=September 5, 2018
|accessdate=September 5, 2018
|quote=The items in the Museu Nacional in Rio may be gone, but Wikipedia doesn't want them to be forgotten.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Ezepue
|first=Ebele
|title=Wikipedia training in Palmerston North
|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/manawatu-guardian/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503567&objectid=12119583
|newspaper=Manawatū Guardian
|date=September 6, 2018
|accessdate=September 6, 2018
|quote=New Zealand's first travelling Wikimedian Mike Dickison is leading a team of volunteers to build a community of Wikipedia editors in New Zealand.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Imran
|first=Warda
|title=Mazari, Chaudhry Wikipedia pages locked after malicious edits
|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1796835/1-mazari-chaudhry-wikipedia-pages-locked-malicious-edits/
|newspaper=The Express Tribune
|date=September 6, 2018
|accessdate=September 7, 2018
|quote=Users had planted libellous material on his page to incite hate and religious intolerance. The changes made to Mazari’s profile, however, included changing her name to “Shireen Mazari (aka Lady Taliban)” and changing her profile image to the villainous Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Schuster
|first=Clayton
|title=Wikipedia Has Received Thousands of Images for Their Archive of Brazil’s Museum Fire Losses
|url=https://observer.com/2018/09/brazil-national-museum-archive-photos-wikipedia/
|newspaper=Observer
|date=September 7, 2018
|accessdate=September 8, 2018
|quote=Prior to the fire, Wikimedia Commons––a repository of public domain media which is uploaded, catalogued and curated by the same volunteer editors who write Wikipedia’s articles––had a little over 200 images from the National Museum. Most of those were uploaded in 2015 by a user whose username is Dornicke. Now, they have thousands.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Grosvenor
|first=Bendor
|authorlink=Bendor Grosvenor
|title=Tate and Wikipedia
|url=https://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/5263_Tate_and_Wikipedia
|newspaper=Art History News
|date=September 7, 2018
|accessdate=September 8, 2018
|quote=Had you noticed that Tate's website now no longer features its own biographical entries for artists, but simply takes text from Wikipedia?
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Bailey
|first=Martin
|title=Tate outsources artist biographies on its website to Wikipedia
|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/tate-uses-wikipedia-entries-on-artists-for-its-website
|newspaper=The Art Newspaper
|date=September 10, 2018
|accessdate=September 10, 2018
|quote=The museum does 'not have the resources to create biographies for every individual' in its collection, spokeswoman says.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Gallagher
|first=Mary
|title=WIKI'S WINNER Celebrity Big Brother's Wikipedia page hacked to declares [sic] Kirstie Alley the WINNER hours before the final airs
|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7222318/celebrity-big-brother-wikipedia-page-hacked-kirstie-alley-winner/
|newspaper=The Sun
|date=September 10, 2018
|accessdate=September 10, 2018
|quote=The site was seemingly hacked by an eager fan who is desperate for the 67-year-old Hollywood actress to be crowned this season's champ.
}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Dittus
|first1=Martin
|last2=Graham
|first2=Mark
|title=To reduce inequality, Wikipedia should consider paying editors
|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-inequality-pay-editors
|newspaper=Wired UK
|date=September 11, 2018
|accessdate=September 11, 2018
|quote=The online encyclopedia is a lopsided representation of the world. Should it break its non-profit taboo?
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Petsko
|first=Emily
|title=Wikipedia Is Digitally 'Preserving' Items Destroyed in the Brazil National Museum Fire
|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/556959/wikipedia-digitally-preserving-items-destroyed-brazil-national-museum-fire
|newspaper=Mental Floss
|date=September 12, 2018
|accessdate=September 13, 2018
|quote=Up to 20 million artifacts are thought to have been destroyed in a fire that ravaged Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro last week. While those priceless items can never be recovered, Wikipedia is doing its part to preserve their memory in an online museum of sorts.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Nguyen
|first=Chuong
|title=Reddit and Wikipedia criticize EU’s controversial copyright law
|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/reddit-wikipedia-criticize-eus-controversial-copyright-directive-law/
|newspaper=Digital Trends
|date=September 12, 2018
|accessdate=September 13, 2018
|quote=After Articles 11 and 13 — the link tax and piracy filter requirements– were revised, the lawmakers passed the copyright law 438 to 226 on September 12. The passage of the law generated harsh criticism from Reddit and the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lusher
|first=Adam
|title=Was SAS man's 'great untold true story of the Cold War' actually lifted from pages of spy fiction?
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tom-shore-sas-true-story-pilgrim-spy-fake-walter-mitty-walts-novel-quiller-kgb-wikipedia-hodder-a8535851.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=September 13, 2018
|accessdate=September 18, 2018
|quote=Duns and other critics, however, also think that some parts of Pilgrim Spy that provide background context are based on sizeable chunks of Wikipedia that have been copied almost verbatim without acknowledgement.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Singh
|first=Pulakit
|title=The Curious Case Of Umar Khalid’s Wikipedia Page
|url=https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/09/umar-khalid-finally-has-a-wikipedia-page/
|newspaper=Youth Ki Awaaz
|date=September 14, 2018
|accessdate=November 4, 2018
|quote="Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid finally has a Wikipedia page to his name. His appearance on the fifth most visited website in the world comes two years after his peers... Despite three of them coming into the news around the same time in 2016, why was Umar Khalid’s Wikipedia page created only now?"
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Sanderson
|first=Katharine
|title=Where are Wikipedia’s women scientists?
|url=https://cen.acs.org/careers/women-in-science/Wikipedias-women-scientists/96/i37
|newspaper=Chemical & Engineering News
|date=September 16, 2018
|accessdate=September 17, 2018
|quote=Between 7 and 11% of prominent chemists, both living and dead, are women. That’s according to the worldview represented on Wikipedia, anyway. Compared with employment and degree statistics for chemists today, these figures, extracted from the online encyclopedia, are low.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Schneider
|first=Tim
|title=The Gray Market: Why Tate’s Wikipedia-Supplied Artist Biographies Are More Than Just Embarrassing (and Other Insights)
|url=https://news.artnet.com/opinion/tate-wikipedia-bios-1348946
|newspaper=Artnet
|date=September 17, 2018
|accessdate=September 17, 2018
|quote=Last Monday, The Art Newspaper picked up a story broken a few days earlier by art historian Bendor Grosvenor, who noticed that Tate’s online biographies for artists are now often literal Wikipedia entries.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=McEvoy
|first=Elsa
|title=THE GALL OF YOU Comedian PJ Gallagher shares hilarious snap after a ‘sneaky’ Mayo GAA fan messes with his Wikipedia page
|url=https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/tv/3134507/pj-gallagher-mayo-gaa-fan-messes-wikipedia/
|newspaper=The Irish Sun
|date=September 18, 2018
|accessdate=September 19, 2018
|quote=The Dubliner got a good laugh when he realised that somebody changed details about himself on the page to say he was an “ardent supporter of Mayo GAA despite his Dublin roots”.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Tapaleao
|first=Vaimoana
|title=Wikipedia focuses world's attention on New Zealand suffragette Kate Sheppard
|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12127869
|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald
|date=September 19, 2018
|accessdate=September 19, 2018
|quote=The story of one of New Zealand's most celebrated leaders for social justice will reach more people around the world today - thanks to Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Novak
|first=Matt
|title=Wikipedia Editors Fight Over Whether to Include the President's Dick in Article About Nintendo's Toad
|url=https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-editors-fight-over-whether-to-include-the-pre-1829163947
|newspaper=Gizmodo
|date=September 19, 2018
|accessdate=September 23, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia is the place where we turn for information on topics large and small. And speaking of small, there’s currently a heated debate going on about whether to include the president’s penis on the Wikipedia page for the Nintendo character known as Toad. What a time to be alive.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Gill
|first=Julian
|title=Houston Texans' Wikipedia page changed to say "an alleged" professional team
|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-Texans-Wikipedia-page-changed-to-say-an-13253194.php
|newspaper=Houston Chronicle
|date=September 24, 2018
|accessdate=September 24, 2018
|quote=After the Houston Texans dropped its third game in a row Sunday against the New York Giants, one person rubbed dirt on the wound by editing the team's Wikipedia page to call them 'an alleged' professional football franchise.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Shoot
|first=Brittany
|title=Amazon Has Donated $1 Million to Wikimedia Foundation. Here's Why
|url=http://fortune.com/2018/09/25/amazon-alexa-wikipedia-million-donation/
|newspaper=Fortune
|date=September 25, 2018
|accessdate=September 26, 2018
|quote=Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant used in devices including the Echo and Echo Dot, often recites information from online, crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia when asked to define a word or phrase, or to give some context on a topic.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Levy
|first=Nat
|title=Amazon donates $1M to Wikipedia’s nonprofit parent organization
|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-donates-1m-wikipedias-nonprofit-parent-organization/
|newspaper=Geekwire
|date=September 25, 2018
|accessdate=September 26, 2018
|quote=Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund that keeps the online encyclopedia Wikipedia running.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Wolf
|first=Z. Byron
|title=Wikipedia entry for 'Devil's Triangle' changed to match Kavanaugh's answer
|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/politics/devils-triangle-edit/index.html
|newspaper=CNN
|date=September 27, 2018
|accessdate=September 27, 2018
|quote=Someone on Capitol Hill, operating from a congressional IP address, decided to update Wikipedia to include an entry for '* 'Devil's Triangle', a popular drinking game enjoyed by friends of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.'
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Thebault
|first=Reis
|title=Fight over Kavanaugh nomination finds its oddest front yet — Wikipedia pages
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/fight-over-kavanaugh-nomination-finds-its-oddest-front-yet-wikipedia-pages/
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=September 27, 2018
|accessdate=September 27, 2018
|quote=Three U.S. Senators were 'doxed' when an anonymous Wikipedia user edited the Republican lawmakers' pages, adding in phone numbers and home addresses. The information was quickly removed and aides contacted authorities. The doxing, done in a seemingly partisan fashion, took an increasingly caustic clash over Kavanaugh's nomination to its oddest front yet: the world of Wikipedia revision wars. The Wikipedia entries began circulating on Twitter thanks to an account called @congressedits, a social media 'accountability bot' that tracks edits to the online encyclopedia made from IP addresses assigned to the U.S. Capitol.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Griffin
|first=Andrew
|title='Devil's Triangle': Wikipedia article becomes centre of dispute about Brett Kavanaugh's strange phrase
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/devils-triangle-wikipedia-brett-kavanaugh-hearing-yearbook-drinking-game-a8560156.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=September 28, 2018
|accessdate=September 30, 2018
|quote=A Wikipedia article has become the centre of a dispute over the meaning of the phrase "devil's triangle" after Brett Kavanaugh's hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Mikeleonis
|first=Lukas
|title=Republican senators doxxed on Wikipedia by someone from House of Representatives after Kavanaugh hearing
|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-senators-doxxed-on-wikipedia-by-someone-from-house-of-representatives-after-kavanaugh-hearing
|newspaper=Fox News
|date=September 28, 2018
|accessdate=October 8, 2018
|quote=Personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch were posted by an unknown person located in the House of Representatives on Thursday during the hearing of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=May
|first=Ashley
|title=Devil's Triangle Wikipedia page changes definition during Kavanaugh hearing
|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/devils-triangle-wikipedia-page-changed-during-kavanaugh-hearing.html
|newspaper=CNBC
|date=September 28, 2018
|accessdate=October 28, 2018
|quote=During Thursday's emotional hearing with Brett Kavanaugh, the Wikipedia page for Devil's Triangle briefly changed to reflect the Supreme Court nominee's answer.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=The Debate Over 'Devil's Triangle' Shows Wikipedia At Its Best
|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/09/kavanaugh-wikipedia-devils-triangle.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=September 30, 2018
|accessdate=September 30, 2018
|quote=Most people have an intuitive sense that Wikipedia should not have an entry for Devil's Triangle that describes the 'drinking game enjoyed by friends of judge Brett Kavanaugh'—it just feels wrong for an encyclopedia. But why is it wrong?
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Horton
|first=Alex
|last2=Thebault
|first2=Reis
|title=‘Despicable lies’: Rep. Maxine Waters denies her staff doxed Republicans on Wikipedia
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/30/despicable-lies-rep-maxine-waters-denies-her-staff-doxed-republicans-wikipedia/
|newspaper=Washington Post
|date=September 30, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|quote=Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has rejected accusations that a member of her staff published the personal information of Republican senators Thursday on Wikipedia as they held a hearing on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
}}
October
- {{cite news
|last=Graham
|first=Mark
|title=More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
|url=https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/
|newspaper=Internet Archive Blogs
|date=October 1, 2018
|accessdate=October 1, 2018
|quote=Now more than 9 million URLs, on 22 Wikipedia sites, point to archived resources from the Wayback Machine and other web archive providers.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Lubbock
|first=John
|title=It’d be a lot harder for foreign governments to hack Wikipedia than you think
|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2018/10/it-d-be-lot-harder-foreign-governments-hack-wikipedia-you-think
|newspaper=New Statesman
|date=October 1, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|quote=Carl Miller of the think tank Demos wrote for the New Statesman in August suggesting that a concerted Russian effort to subvert and bias Wikipedia is a real possibility that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
}}
- {{cite news
| last=Davis
| first=Nicola
| title=Nobel physics prize winners include first female laureate for 55 years – as it happened
|newspaper=the Guardian
| date= October 2, 2018
| url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2018/oct/02/nobel-prize-in-physics-2018-live
| quote= The last thoughts on today’s award are from Dr Amelle Zaïr from King’s College London, who is a lecturer in advanced photonics and Dr Seirian Sumner, a behavioural ecologist and co-founder of Soapbox Science, ... Sumner says the fact that Strickland’s Wikipedia page has only appeared today is telling.'It took a Nobel prize for Donna Strickland to be noticed enough to have a (short) Wikipedia page written about her. Another example of how womens' contributions to science go unnoticed and uncelebrated,' she says. 'It takes the science equivalent of an Oscar for a woman in Stem [science, technology engineering and mathematics] to get noticed!'
| access-date= October 23, 2018}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Purtill
|first1=Corinne
|last2=Schlanger
|first2=Zoë
|title=Wikipedia rejected an entry on today's Nobel Prize winner in May because she wasn't famous enough
|url=https://qz.com/1410909/wikipedia-had-rejected-nobel-prize-winner-donna-strickland-because-she-wasnt-famous-enough/
|newspaper=Quartz
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 2, 2018
|quote=Today, optical physicist Donna Strickland received the Nobel Prize for her work on ultrashort lasers. As recently as May, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Donna_Strickland&oldid=842614385 Wikipedia editors weren't convinced] that Strickland's work was significantly covered enough to merit an article on the site.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Koren
|first=Marina
|title=One Wikipedia Page Is a Metaphor for the Nobel Prize's Record With Women
|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/nobel-prize-physics-donna-strickland-gerard-mourou-arthur-ashkin/571909/
|newspaper=The Atlantic
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 2, 2018
|quote=To scroll through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donna_Strickland&action=history 'history' tab of Strickland's page,] where all edits are recorded and tracked, is to witness in real time the recognition of a scientist whose story likely deserved attention long before the Nobel Prize Committee called.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=The Wikipedia contributor behind 2.5 million edits
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-most-prolific-contributor-to-the-english-version-of-wikipedia/2018/10/02/a6497a74-9411-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 2, 2018
|quote=According to the Wikimedia Foundation, Steven Pruitt is the most prolific contributor to the English version of the digital encyclopedia. Of its nearly 5.7 million pages, he has edited a staggering one-third.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Cole
|first=Samantha
|title=Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts
|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9qvv/wikipedia-banned-breitbart-infowars
|newspaper=Motherboard
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|language=English
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002222139/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9qvv/wikipedia-banned-breitbart-infowars
|archivedate=October 2, 2018
|url-status=live
|quote=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.”
}}
- {{cite news
|title=The Internet Archive Fixes 9 Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4384e9/internet-archive-fixed-9-million-wikipedia-broken-links
|newspaper=Vice Motherboard
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=The Internet Archive’s broken link archiving could prove especially important in terms of Wikipedia’s fact-checking capacity on YouTube. Earlier this year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced (without warning Wikipedia) that the site would provide links to Wikipedia articles on videos that have content related to conspiracy theories, a prevalent issue on the site.
}}
- {{cite magazine
|last=Kelly
|first=Kevin
|title=The Great Upwelling
|work=Wired
|date=October 2018
|quote=In 2001, Wikipedia erupted. It was the dumbest idea in history - that unknown amateurs anywhere in the world could write a reliable and useful encyclopedia with little supervision.
|page=842
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Blum
|first=Sam
|title=Millions of Old, Broken Wikipedia Links Have Been Brought Back to Life
|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a23566942/wikipedia-9-million-links-rescued-internet-archive/
|newspaper=Popular Mechanics
|date=October 2, 2018
|accessdate=October 8, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia has long suffered from a broken link problem as old, referenced pages go offline. But luckily, stewards from the Internet Archive have been slowly resurrecting those millions of faulty links, using a software robot to replace 404'd pages with archived versions using the Wayback Machine.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Wikipedia's broken links fixed by the Internet Archive
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45730363
|newspaper=BBC
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|quote=The online encyclopedia's editors have long been encouraged to provide links to web-based sources. But the details can be lost if the third-party sites close or update their pages.
}}
- {{cite web
| title=Daily briefing: Why Nobel-winner Donna Strickland’s Wikipedia page matters
| website=Nature
| date=3 October 2018
| url=http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06938-5
| quote=Back in May, Wikipedia rejected an entry on optical physicist Donna Strickland because she wasn't famous enough. Yesterday, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics. .... A scroll through the history tab of Strickland’s page, which records the progress of her recognition in real time, 'feels like a metaphor for a historic award process that has long been criticized for neglecting women in its selection, and for the shortage of women’s stories in the sciences at large,' says The Atlantic.
| access-date=23 October 2018}}
- {{cite news
|title=The Nobel prize winning scientist who wasn’t famous enough for Wikipedia
|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-wasn-t-famous-enough-for-wikipedia-1.3650212
|newspaper=Irish Times
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|quote=It has entries on the Radioactive Boy Scout, Oscar the death-predicting cat and the man with the longest beard in recorded history, but until yesterday, when Donna Strickland became the first woman for 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Wikipedia wasn’t convinced she merited her own page in the online encyclopedia.
}}
- {{cite web
| title=Rare Nobel Prize win by a woman a 'stark reminder' of sexism in physics - CBC News
| website= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| date=October 2, 2018
| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nobel-prizes-women-gender-1.4847608
| quote = In fact, Strickland was profoundly under-recognized prior to her Nobel Prize win. Some observers noted there wasn't even a Wikipedia entry about her until Tuesday morning.
| access-date=October 23, 2018}}
- {{cite news
|last=Wyrich
|first=Andrew
|title=Wikipedia editors vote Breitbart can’t be used as ‘a reference for facts’
|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikipedia-breitbart/
|newspaper=The Daily Dot
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 3, 2018
|quote=Editors on Wikipedia voted last month to stop using Breitbart, the hyper-conservative website, “as a reference for facts” on the crowdsourced encyclopedia, according to a new report.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Tannam
|first=Ellen
|title=The Internet Archive helps Wikipedia resurrect 9m dead links
|url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/wikipedia-internet-archive
|newspaper=Silicon Republic
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=The Wayback Machine houses an archive of more than 338bn webpages, dating back to the very beginning of the world wide web. It can be difficult to manually search, so one Wikipedia contributor, Maximilian Doerr, created a program called IAbot (Internet Archive bot), which identified links that returned a 404 or ‘page not found’ error. Wikipedia community volunteer Stephen Balbach also played a crucial role in the project.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Cecco
|first=Leyland
|title=Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/03/donna-strickland-nobel-physics-prize-wikipedia-denied
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced the Nobel prize for physics this week, anyone wanting to find out more about one of the three winners would have drawn a blank on Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=S. Hsu
|first=Spencer
|title=Former junior Democratic aide charged with posting personal data on GOP senators online
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-junior-democratic-aide-charged-with-posting-personal-data-on-gop-senators-online/2018/10/03/1a056aaa-c760-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html
|newspaper=Washington Post
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=U.S. Capitol Police announced late Wednesday that a former junior Senate Democratic staffer has been arrested for allegedly posting private information about Republican senators on the Wikipedia Internet website.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Baker
|first=Sinéad Baker
|title=Wikipedia rejected an entry on a physics Nobel laureate right up until she won, saying she wasn't famous enough
|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-rejected-donna-strickland-entry-before-nobel-prize-2018-10
|newspaper=Business Insider
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until she became a Nobel laureate, and earlier attempts to write a page for her were rejected because she was not famous enough.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Cook
|first=Gina
|title=DC Man Charged With Posting Senators' Private Information on Wikipedia
|url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/DC-Man-Charged-With-Posting-Senators-Private-Information-on-Wikipedia-495110821.html
|newspaper=NBC
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=A man from Washington, D.C., has been accused of posting senators' private information on Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Hannon
|first=Elliot
|title=Former Democratic Staffer Arrested for Allegedly Doxing Senate Republicans and Posting Personal Contact Info to Wikipedia
|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/democratic-staffer-arrested-dox-wikipedia-senate-republicans-personal-information-online.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=The Capitol Police arrested a 27-year-old former congressional staffer, who appears to have worked for a handful of Democrats on the Hill, for allegedly doxing Republican senators and editing their Wikipedia pages to include personal information, including their home addresses.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Adler
|first=T.D.
|title=Breitbart Blacklisted from Use on Wikipedia as ‘Reliable Source’
|newspaper=Breitbart
|date=October 3, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia editors have had Breitbart News formally listed as an unreliable source, meaning it can not be cited for factual claims. Editors have responded by purging citations to Breitbart News throughout the online encyclopedia, a move no doubt designed in part to hurt Breitbart’s search engine results ranking.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Smith
|first=Adam
|title=Wikipedia Bans Breitbart as Source of Fact
|url=https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/117753/wikipedia-bans-breitbart-as-source-of-fact
|newspaper=PC Magazine
|date=October 3, 2018
|accessdate=October 29, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia editors have voted to ban right-wing website Breitbart as a source of fact on any of its articles.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Aaron
|first=Pressman
|title=How We Can All Fix Wikipedia's Lack of Female Representation
|url=http://fortune.com/2018/10/04/how-we-can-all-fix-wikipedias-lack-of-female-representation/
|newspaper=Fortune
|date=October 4, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=Back in March, someone tried to write a Wikipedia entry for one of the most important optical physicists on the planet, only to have their proposed entry deleted on May 23 by one of Wikipedia’s volunteer editing crew because the “submission is about a person not yet shown to meet notability guidelines.”
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Purtill
|first=Corinne
|title=Sexism at Wikipedia feeds off the sexism in the media
|url=https://qz.com/1412718/wikipedia-has-a-problem-with-sexism-so-does-the-media/
|newspaper=Quartz
|date=October 4, 2018
|accessdate=October 4, 2018
|quote=Her omission from the internet’s encyclopedia prompted accusations of gender bias at Wikipedia, leading founder Jimmy Wales to conclude that the site “needs to change.” But it’s also a pointed lesson in the hazards of gender bias in media, and of the broader consequences of underrepresentation.
}}
- {{cite news
| last=Rahim
| first=Zamira
| title=Wikipedia criticised after it emerges female Nobel laureate had page rejected
| newspaper=The Independent
| date=October 4, 2018
| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/donna-strickland-wikipedia-nobel-prize-physics-university-of-waterloo-stem-a8568851.html
| quote=‘She’s a woman doing what many still consider men’s work,’ scientist says .... 'It's likely [Ms Strickland's] seminal contributions to science were not considered interesting enough because she's a woman doing what many still consider men's work,' said Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.
| access-date=October 23, 2018}}
- {{cite news
|last1=Zaringhalam
|first1=Maryam
|last2=Wade
|first2=Jessica
|authorlink2=Jessica Wade
|title=Donna Strickland's treatment on Wikipedia shows how women have long been excluded from science
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nobel-prize-winner-physics-2018-donna-strickland-wikipedia-entry-deleted-sexism-equality-a8572006.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=October 6, 2018
|accessdate=October 8, 2018
|quote=Despite Strickland’s historic achievement, her biography was conspicuously absent from the world’s fifth most popular website – Wikipedia. Her absence was not a mere oversight, but the product of systemic gender bias in the sciences, which trickles down to the encyclopaedia meant to provide “free access to the sum of all human knowledge”.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Joshi
|first=Sonam
|title=Adding the W in Wikipedia
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/adding-the-w-in-wikipedia/articleshow/66101777.cms
|newspaper=The Times of India
|date=October 7, 2018
|accessdate=October 8, 2018
|quote=Last week, Wikipedia hit the headlines after it was reported that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donna Strickland didn’t have her own page until after her win. Back Home, a few dedicated Wikipedia editors are determined to close Wiki's gender Gap.
What does Tessy Thomas, the first woman to head a missile project in India, have in common with the late Justice Leila Seth, educator Mary Roy, hockey player Rani Rampal and weightlifter Yumnam Renu Bala Chanu? These women got a small mention on Wikipedia. Until recently.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Bazely
|first=Dawn
|authorlink=Dawn Bazely
|title=Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn't have a Wikipedia page
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/08/why-nobel-winner-donna-strickland-didnt-have-wikipedia-page/
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=October 8, 2018
|accessdate=October 8, 2018
|quote=As a biology professor who edits Wikipedia, Strickland’s story did not surprise me: According to the Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, only 17 percent of the reference project’s biographies were about women. What’s more, I have seen the underlying dynamics of this gender gap play out in my undergraduate courses.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Thistle
|first=Scott
|title=Fallout for Kavanaugh vote continues for Collins as her Wikipedia page is edited anonymously
|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/09/fallout-for-kavanaugh-vote-continues-for-collins-as-her-wikipedia-page-is-edited-anonymously/
|newspaper=Portland Press Herald
|date=October 9, 2018
|accessdate=October 9, 2018
|quote=The popular online crowd-sourced encyclopedia was edited to suggest [U.S. Senator Susan] Collins voted to put 'attempted rapist' on the U.S. Supreme Court.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Telugu
|first=Samayam
|title=Wikipedia fixes factual errors on Nandamuri Balakrishna's page
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/wikipedia-fixes-factual-errors-on-nandamuri-balakrishnas-page/articleshow/66132710.cms
|newspaper=Times of India
|date=October 9, 2018
|accessdate=October 11, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia was quick to respond and removed the Nandamuri Balakrishna's death date from its page on the actor.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Can Wikipedia be trusted?
|url=http://www.forbesindia.com/article/kellogg-school-of-management/can-wikipedia-be-trusted/51519/1
|newspaper=Forbes India
|date=October 10, 2018
|accessdate=October 10, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia’s popularity as an information source with everyone from grade-schoolers to those in their golden years, led Shane Greenstein, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School, to investigate how faithfully Wikipedia adheres to a “neutral point of view.”
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Nicole
|first=Carpenter
|title=Wikipedia drops “eSports”
|url=https://dotesports.com/culture/news/wikipedia-drops-esports
|website=Dot Esports
|date=October 18, 2018
|accessdate=October 18, 2018
|quote=A single capital letter has caused a lot of tension throughout this industry. After some debate, Wikipedia has decided to drop the capital S from “eSports,” which was previously acceptable on the site.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Maher
|first=Katherin
|title=Wikipedia mirrors the world's gender biases, it doesn't cause them
|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-maher-wikipedia-gender-bias-20181018-story.html
|newspaper=Los Angeles Times
|date=October 18, 2018
|accessdate=January 1, 2019
|quote=It is true that Wikipedia has a problem if Donna Strickland, an accomplished physicist, is considered worthy of a page only when she receives the highest possible recognition in her field. But this problem reflects a far more consequential and intractable problem in the real world.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=
|first=
|title=Wikipedia – a tool of the ruling elite
|url=https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/441852-wikipedia-elite-journalist-discussion/
|newspaper=RT (Russia Today)
|date=October 21, 2018
|access-date= October 30, 2019
|language=
|quote=
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Wikipedia edit-a-thon celebrates women from Isle of Skye
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-45966330
|newspaper=BBC
|date=October 25, 2018
|accessdate=October 28, 2018
|quote=Thirteen new articles about women from the Isle of Skye have been added to Wikipedia to mark 100 years of women's suffrage
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Gilmer
|first=Marcus
|title=Here are the most unforgettable Wikipedia vandalism trolls of all time
|url=https://mashable.com/article/best-wikipedia-edit-trolls/
|newspaper=Mashable
|date=October 26, 2018
|accessdate=October 28, 2018
|quote=It may seem counterintuitive, but it's possible for trolling to reach an art form — think subtle and even sublime — especially when it happens via Wikipedia, the internet's open-source encyclopedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Babones
|first=Salvatore
|title=Why Did Donna Strickland Not Have a Wikipedia Page?
|url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-did-donna-strickland-not-have-wikipedia-page-34702
|newspaper=The National Interest
|date=October 30, 2018
|accessdate=November 6, 2018
|quote=According to Factiva, no one in the mainstream media had ever interviewed Donna Strickland about her research before this week. No one had even written about her research. If there is sexism afoot, it’s not on Wikipedia. It’s in the press itself.
}}
November
- {{cite news
|title=Women from Trichy district turn contributors to Tamil Wikipedia
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/women-from-trichy-dist-turn-contributors-totamil-wikipedia/articleshow/66452734.cms
|newspaper=The Times of India
|date=November 1, 2018
|accessdate=November 4, 2018
|quote=Encouraged to contribute information for Tamil Wikipedia for the past year, a secondary grade teacher from a government-aided school in Karaikudi, Pa Thendral said that such inputs are of great help for researchers and anyone can contribute to it.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Fury banned from Wikipedia after editing Klitschko page
|url=https://www.foxsportsasia.com/combat-sports/boxing/965416/fury-banned-from-wikipedia-after-editing-klitschko-page/
|newspaper=Fox Sports Asia
|date=November 1, 2018
|accessdate=November 4, 2018
|quote=Tyson Fury claims he was banned from Wikipedia after making changes to a page dedicated to Wladimir Klitschko.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Domin
|first=Martin
|title=Tyson Fury was banned from Wikipedia for editing Wladimir Klitschko's page
|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/boxing/tyson-fury-banned-wikipedia-editing-13516599
|newspaper=Irish Mirror
|date=November 1, 2018
|accessdate=November 6, 2018
|quote=When asked if the story was true, Fury told BT Sport: "Yes it is true, until I got banned from Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Gilchrist
|first=Ethan
|title=See why an ASU professor wants his students to use Wikipedia
|url=http://www.statepress.com/article/2018/11/spcommunity-asu-wikipedia-course-creates-innovative-version-of-typical-research-paper
|newspaper=The State Press
|date=November 6, 2018
|accessdate=November 6, 2018
|quote=Beresford chose to focus his students on articles within the Soviet Union Wikipedia project, which includes many stubs and starts — Wikipedia articles that lack content and sources — that need beefing up. This pool of articles gives his students 1,642 pieces they could potentially edit and contribute to.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Matheson
|first=Rob
|title=Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved
|url=http://news.mit.edu/2018/wikipedia-disputes-unresolved-study-1106
|newspaper=MIT News
|date=November 6, 2018
|accessdate=November 8, 2018
|quote=Often, multiple Wikipedia editors will disagree on certain changes to articles or policies. One of the main ways to officially resolve such disputes is the Requests for Comment (RfC) process. Quarreling editors will publicize their deliberation on a forum, where other Wikipedia editors will chime in and a neutral editor will make a final decision. Ideally, this should solve all issues. But a novel study by MIT researchers finds debilitating factors — such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments — have led to about one-third of RfCs going unresolved.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Cole
|first=Samantha
|title=A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs
|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9zjv/a-third-of-wikipedia-discussions-are-stuck-in-forever-beefs
|newspaper=Motherboard
|date=November 7, 2018
|accessdate=November 9, 2018
|quote=When editors disagree about an edit to be made on a Wikipedia article, they start by discussing it on the article’s Talk page. When that doesn’t result in a decision, they can open a Request for Comment (RfC). From there, any editor can choose a side or discuss the merits of whatever edit is up for discussion, and—in theory—come to an agreement.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Rozycki
|first=Jo
|title=W&M takes Wikipedia by storm to increase representation of women
|url=https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/wm-takes-wikipedia-by-storm-to-increase-representation-of-women.php
|newspaper=William & Mary News
|date=November 7, 2018
|accessdate=November 9, 2018
|quote=On Nov. 3, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary organized a Wikistorm, a massive Wikipedia editing effort to add more pages about women to the site.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Macdonald
|first=Nikki
|title=How it is decided who is Wikipedia-worthy
|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107975952/who-do-we-honour-and-who-decides
|newspaper=Stuff
|date=November 10, 2018
|accessdate=November 10, 2018
|quote=Wikipedian Mike Dickison types "Beverley Anne Holloway" into Google and hits enter. Only 10 minutes earlier, in this room among the compost bins at Wellington's Sustainability Trust, a volunteer editor pressed publish on a Wikipedia article she'd created about the New Zealand entomologist. Yet there it is, already at the top of Google's search results.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Neilstein
|first=Vince
|title=Threatin: Moderators Flagged and Deleted Wikipedia Page Months Ago for False Claims [Transcript Available!]
|url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2018/11/12/threatin-moderators-flagged-and-deleted-wikipedia-page-months-ago-for-false-claims-transcript-available/
|newspaper=MetalSucks
|date=November 12, 2018
|accessdate=November 13, 2018
|quote=For all the shit Wikipedia gets for being an allegedly unreliable source, these moderators did a really fucking good job keeping Threatin off the site. And they did it eight months before the rest of the world had a clue.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Kala Bhavani
|first=Divya
|title=Wikipedia Asian Month: Voice for the under-represented
|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/wikipedia-asian-month-2018-voices-of-the-under-represented/article25538071.ece
|newspaper=The Hindu
|date=19 November 2018
|access-date=28 November 2018
|quote=...just as there’s Wikipedia in French or German, why not prioritise articles about Asia to be in regional dialects to suit the reader; after all, English readers always have a page translation option. Enter Wikipedia Asian Month.
}}
- {{cite news
|title=I’m a Celeb fans change Declan Donnelly’s height on Wikipedia after Holly Willoughby jokes that he “is only 5 ft 1”
|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-20/im-a-celebrity-2018-dec-height-wikipedia-page-holly-willoughby-joke/
|newspaper=Radio Times
|date=November 20, 2018
|accessdate=November 22, 2018
|quote=Declan Donnelly’s Wikipedia page was edited by I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! viewers after his fellow host Holly Willoughby made a joke about his height.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Aderet
|first=Ofer
|title=Israeli Archivists Fume Over Wikimedia Israel's Reposting of Historical Photos Trove
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-archivists-fume-over-wikimedia-israel-s-reposting-of-historical-photos-trove-1.6673974?=&ts=_1543398536965
|newspaper=Haaretz
|date=20 November 2018
|access-date=28 November 2018
|quote=The Association of Israeli Archivists has roundly condemned Wikimedia Israel, the local affiliate of the U.S. foundation that runs Wikipedia, for copying into its photo archive 28,000 photographs taken in pre-state Israel.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Martin
|first=Laura
|title=Jake Hester: Who is Anne Hegerty’s fake Wikipedia husband? I’m A Celebrity fans want to track him down
|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/jake-hester-anne-hegerty-husband-wikipedia-im-a-celebrity-2018/
|newspaper=i
|date=November 22, 2018
|accessdate=November 22, 2018
|quote=It turns out that somebody has been amending Hegerty’s Wikipedia page to add in the existence of a husband who may or not walk this earth.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Warren
|first=Tom
|title=Siri thinks Donald Trump is a penis
|url=https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/11/22/18108195/apple-siri-iphone-donald-trump-penis-wikipedia-fail-vandalism-editing
|newspaper=The Verge
|date=22 November 2018
|accessdate=22 November 2018
|language=en
|quote=If you use an iPhone to ask Siri how old Donald Trump is, you’ll be greeted with a picture of a penis instead of a photo of the President. At the time of writing, the penis picture keeps coming and going. Presumably, someone is editing the Wikipedia page associated with Donald Trump, or gaming the algorithm that Siri uses to source images.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Kamm
|first=Oliver
|authorlink=Oliver Kamm
|title=How credulous cranks made me the subject of their baseless conspiracy theory
|url=https://capx.co/how-credulous-cranks-made-me-the-subject-of-their-conspiracy-theory/
|newspaper=CapX
|date=23 November 2018
|access-date=23 November 2018
|language=en-gb
|quote=I was inundated with abusive messages attacking me for editing Wikipedia under a pseudonym, or running a massive operation of others doing so, or of paying for such a task (the claims varied and were never very coherent).
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Griffin
|first=Andrew
|title=Asking Siri for information about Donald Trump shows explicit image after Wikipedia edit
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-siri-explicit-image-apple-wikipedia-edit-explained-a8648556.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=23 November 2018
|access-date=24 November 2018
|language=en
|quote=It is far from the first time that Wikipedia has been used to make voice assistants like Siri read out questionable information. Last year, when Burger King ran a campaign that forced people's Google Home assistants to start talking, somebody edited the Whopper's Wikipedia page so that it said the burger contained "cyanide" and is "the worst hamburger product" it has ever made.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Blumenthal
|first=Eli
|title=Wikipedia vandalizing causes Siri to show a lewd image when asked about Donald Trump
|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/11/22/siri-glitch-shows-male-genitalia-when-asking-questions-trump/2088884002/
|newspaper=USA Today
|date=23 November 2018
|accessdate=24 November 2018
|language=en
|quote=A few rogue Wikipedia editors may have caused Siri to show a lewd image when asked about Donald Trump during Thanksgiving.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Gander
|first=Kashmira
|title=Someone hacked Donald Trump’s Wikipedia page, replaced photo with image of penis
|url=https://www.newsweek.com/someone-hacked-donald-trumps-wikipedia-page-replaced-photo-image-penis-1228571
|newspaper=Newsweek
|date=23 November 2018
|access-date=24 November 2018
|quote=Usually, the main image of the president on his Wikipedia page shows him smiling against a backdrop of the American flag, in an official White House portrait. But on Thursday, iPhone users who asked Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, the president’s age were met with a graphic image of a man’s genitalia, an English Wikipedia Administrator who asked to be identified by his username TheSandDoctor, confirmed to Newsweek.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Graham-McLay
|first=Charlotte
|title=How an encyclopedic collector became New Zealand's chief Wikipedia editor
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/wikipedia-investment-expand-new-zealand-mike-dickison-collector-museum-curator-a8640741.html
|newspaper=The Independent
|date=24 November 2018
|access-date=24 November 2018
|quote=In the grand library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum on a Saturday morning in August, a small group of new and slightly nervous Wikipedia editors gather for a day of training that will arm them to tackle New Zealand’s lacklustre representation on the crowdsourced online encyclopedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Martin
|first=Alan
|title=The Trump penis Wikipedia war has kicked off again
|url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3066986/the-trump-penis-wikipedia-war-has-kicked-off-again
|newspaper=The Inquirer
|date=26 November 2018
|access-date=28 November 2018
|quote=In the escalating battle of tackle-terrorism, Trump's Wikipedia page has been hit at least five times, and the attackers have got increasingly sophisticated at smuggling the skin flute onto the page without arousing suspicion.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Hamill
|first=Jasper
|title=Inside the Wikipedia ‘Donald Trump penis wars’: How vandals turned d*** pics into weapons
|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/inside-the-wikipedia-donald-trump-penis-wars-how-vandals-turned-d-pics-into-weapons-8186882/
|newspaper=Metro
|date=28 November 2018
|access-date=3 December 2018
|quote=Apple’s Siri, which draws information from Wikipedia, was then drawn into the debacle and began showing people a penis when they asked: ‘Who is Donald Trump?’
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Winer
|first=Stuart
|title=Wikipedia uploads 28,000 photos of pre-state Israel, for all to use
|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/wikipedia-uploads-28000-photos-of-pre-state-israel-for-all-to-use/
|newspaper=The Times of Israel
|date=29 November 2018
|access-date=3 December 2018
|quote=Wikimedia Israel, the local branch of online free information service Wikipedia, has published some 28,000 pre-Israel photographs taken in and around the region which would eventually become the Jewish state.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Myers
|first=Alex
|title=Somebody did quite a number on Stephen A. Smith's Wikipedia page
|url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/somebody-did-quite-a-number-on-stephen-a-smiths-wikipedia-page
|newspaper=Golf Digest
|date=30 November 2018
|access-date=3 December 2018
|quote=Ever wonder what the "A" in Stephen A. Smith stands for? Well, if you Googled it on Friday, you may have found a funny answer. Thanks to Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina for spotting Smith's updated Wikipedia page where somebody did quite a number:
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Prestwich
|first=Emma
|title=Gender bias on Wikipedia: Why notable women in religion are missing on the site
|url=https://www.ucobserver.org/faith/2018/11/1000_women_in_religion/
|newspaper=United Church Observer
|date=November 2018
|access-date=3 December 2018
|quote=At the Parliament of the World's Religions conference in Toronto on Saturday — an interfaith gathering that attracted thousands — Hartung and other organizers held a workshop where they asked participants to brainstorm women they think should be added. They also encouraged them to become Wikipedia editors themselves.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=O’Mathúna
|first=Dónal P.
|title=How Should Clinicians Engage With Online Health Information?
|url=https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-should-clinicians-engage-online-health-information/2018-11
|newspaper=AMA Journal of Ethics
|date=November 2018
|access-date=30 May 2019
|quote=Using Wikipedia as a case study, this article argues that everyone engaging with internet health information has ethical responsibilities. Those hosting and writing for health websites should ensure that information is evidence based, accurate, up to date, and readable and be transparent about conflicts of interest.
}}
December
- {{cite news
|last=Brandom
|first=Russell
|title=Wikipedia engages the ‘nuclear option’ after Trump penis hack
|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18125359/wikipedia-trump-admin-account-security-hack
|newspaper=The Verge
|date=December 4, 2018
|accessdate=December 5, 2018
|quote=As Wikipedia becomes more powerful, it’s facing a new vandalism problem. In recent weeks, the user-moderated online encyclopedia has experienced a string of rogue edits, most infamously when a user changed Donald Trump’s lead picture to an image of a penis, an attack that was repeated for days afterwards.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Teng
|first=Jaclyn
|title=Google partners with Wikipedia to translate content for Indonesians
|url=https://www.techinasia.com/google-partner-wikipedia-indonesia
|newspaper=Tech in Asia
|date=December 4, 2018
|accessdate=December 6, 2018
|quote=Google will identify relevant Wikipedia articles that are only available in English and translate them into Bahasa Indonesia using its AI-powered neural machine translation system.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=McKay
|first=Ron
|title=How Hickenlooper popped up as a brewery owner in Vonnegut’s Timequake: Health Check Online
|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17286124.ron-mckays-diary-how-hickenlooper-popped-up-as-a-brewery-owner-in-vonneguts-timequake/
|newspaper=The Herald (Glasgow)
|date=December 9, 2018
|accessdate=December 10, 2018
|quote=If you check out Kamm’s own Wiki entry you’ll see that it carries a health warning. “A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require clean-up to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view.” Who on earth could this be referring to?
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Russian Interior Ministry tries (and fails) to purge Wikipedia information about Minister Kolokoltsev illegally attending a political party congress
|url=https://meduza.io/en/shapito/2018/12/10/russian-interior-ministry-tries-and-fails-to-purge-information-on-wikipedia-about-minister-kolokoltsev-illegally-attending-a-political-party-congress-over-the-weekend
|newspaper=Meduza
|date=December 10, 2018
|accessdate=December 10, 2018
|quote=Russia’s Interior Ministry (MVD) has tried but failed to purge from Wikipedia reports that Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev possibly broke the law over the weekend by attending United Russia’s annual congress.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Chauhan
|first=Soumyata
|title=Wikipedia changes Sara Ali Khan's age to 23 after DNA Exclusive Interview
|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-dna-impact-wikipedia-changes-sara-ali-khan-s-age-to-23-after-dna-exclusive-interview-2694406
|newspaper=Daily News and Analysis
|date=December 10, 2018
|accessdate=December 11, 2018
|quote=And guess what, Wikipedia actually obliged. Within hours of release of DNA's video interview, Sara's date of birth was changed on her Wikipedia page. Now isn't this amazing!
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Horner
|first=Scott
|title=T. Y. Hilton 'owns' Houston Texans' stadium because Wikipedia says so
|url=https://eu.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2018/12/10/indianapolis-colts-t-y-hilton-owns-houston-texans-stadium-because-wikipedia-says-so/2271226002/
|newspaper=The Indianapolis Star
|date=December 10, 2018
|accessdate=December 11, 2018
|quote=The Wikipedia page for NRG Stadium, where the Houston Texans play, listed the owner as "T. Y. Hilton" for part of Monday.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Murdock
|first=Sebastian
|title=Hearing On Google Gave Congressmen Ample Opportunities For Self-Owns
|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-judiciary-committee-hearing-google-ceo-sundar-pichai_us_5c1007aae4b084b082fd892e
|newspaper=Huffington Post
|date=December 11, 2018
|quote=Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said he was frustrated that he couldn't edit his Wikipedia page after ranting that the Southern Poverty Law Center stirs up "hate." (It doesn’t.)
}}
- {{cite news
|title=Wikipedia makes Sachin Pilot CM
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/wikipedia-makes-sachin-pilot-cm/articleshow/67052998.cms
|newspaper=The Times of India
|date=December 12, 2018
|accessdate=December 14, 2018
|quote=Hours before results were officially declared, Rajasthan’s new CM was announced on Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Leonard
|first=Victoria
|title=Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/12/female-scholars-are-marginalised-on-wikipedia-because-its-written-by-men
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=December 12, 2018
|accessdate=December 14, 2018
|quote=What can we do? Like Jess Wade, a physicist and Wikipedia editor writing reams of pages for women in Stem, the Women’s Classical Committee is looking to counteract the stranglehold men exert over English-language Wikipedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|title= Wikipedia announces Kamal Nath as Madhya Pradesh CM before Rahul Gandhi can
|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kamal-nath-madhya-pradesh-chief-minister-wikipedia-1408990-2018-12-13
|newspaper=India Today
|date=December 13, 2018
|accessdate=December 14, 2018
|quote=Wikipedia has proposed Kamal Nath as Chief minister of the Madhya Pradesh state without proper evidence.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Morrow
|first=Brendan
|title=Wikipedia has added a 'criminal status' box to pages about Trump associates
|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/812481/wikipedia-added-criminal-status-box-pages-about-trump-associates
|newspaper=The Week
|date=December 13, 2018
|accessdate=December 14, 2018
|quote=In case you're having trouble keeping track of the criminal status of various associates to President Trump, Wikipedia is, as always, here to help.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=Why Wikipedia’s “Nuclear Option” Is the Right Call
|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/wikipedia-nuclear-option-administrators-unself-banning.html
|newspaper=Slate
|date=December 17, 2018
|accessdate=June 15, 2019
|quote=Understanding the online encyclopedia’s motivations to go nuclear requires a brief history lesson. Wikipedia’s open platform has been challenged by vandalism since its founding in 2001. The bad edits range from the humorous (for example, suggesting actor Jeremy Renner is a velociraptor) to more serious (like the Siegenthaler biography incident).
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Contorno
|first=Steve
|title=As Trump mulled chief of staff pick, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows’s USF degree was fixed on Wikipedia
|url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/12/18/as-trump-mulled-chief-of-staff-pick-u-s-rep-mark-meadowss-usf-degree-was-fixed-on-wikipedia/
|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times
|date=December 18, 2018
|accessdate=December 19, 2018
|quote=There was a curious change to the Wikipedia page of U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows last week, just after reports surfaced that President Donald Trump was considering the Florida native and North Carolina Republican for his chief of staff.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Robinson
|first=Nathan J.
|title=Toward The Wiki Society
|url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/toward-the-wiki-society
|newspaper=Current Affairs
|date=December 20, 2018
|accessdate=December 20, 2018
|language=English
|quote=Wkipedia is now so good that we don’t tend to think about how good it is. It’s just there, and it feels as if it’s always been there. “Oh yes, the vast free repository of human knowledge, what about it?” But Wikipedia is remarkable. Astonishing, really. It’s built on a model that exists almost nowhere else online. It’s like nothing else in existence. And it gives us a bit of insight into how we might reform other platforms, even society itself.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Singh
|first=Manish
|title=Facebook donates $1 million to support Wikipedia
|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/20/facebook-donates-1-million-to-support-wikipedia/
|newspaper=VentureBeat
|date=December 20, 2018
|accessdate=December 24, 2018
|quote=Technology giants rely heavily on Wikipedia’s extensive database to source information for their platforms. So it’s only fair that they show interest in the long-term sustainability of the online encyclopedia.
}}
- {{cite news
|last=Roeder
|first=Amy
|title=Course uses Wikipedia as tool for teaching science translation
|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/wikipedia-students-occupational-health/
|newspaper=Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
|date=December 20, 2018
|accessdate=December 24, 2018
|quote=To help ensure that the initial information web searchers encounter is up-to-date and accurate, NIOSH has been working since 2012 to expand and update occupational health and safety content on Wikipedia—a site for which users write entries and rigorously edit each other’s work.
}}