Elon Musk has not just complained about Wikipedia’s perceived bias, he has built a full-scale alternative in his own image.
Wikipedia marked its 25th anniversary on Wednesday, underscoring its transformation from a modest online experiment into one ...
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Wikipedia turns 25 today. What began in 2001 as a small experiment is now one of the most visited websites in the world. Over ...
Wikipedia has quietly turned one of the internet’s most beloved public resources into a structured data backbone for ...
Selena Deckelmann argues that in this era of machine-generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable. Selena Deckelmann has never been afraid of people on the internet. With a TV repairman and ...
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday as an alternative to the nonprofit-powered Wikipedia. Musk’s version is backed by xAI but still uses Wikipedia as a source on most subjects. The subsections and ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 2016, two researchers at Harvard Business School examined more than 70,000 Wikipedia articles related to ...
This is Source Notes, a column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Last month, the Jewish-American news site Forward reported a shocking scoop: The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think ...