Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023

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Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2023, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

January

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  • "Wikipedia ha meno bisogno di soldi di quanto si pensi" [Wikipedia needs less money than what we think]. Il Post (in Italian). Italy. January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 22, 2023. Questa discrepanza tra il tono allarmista e un po' ricattatorio delle raccolte fondi e la situazione economica della Wikimedia Foundation mette da tempo a disagio alcuni dei volontari che lavorano gratuitamente alla stesura dell'enciclopedia creando nuove voci, modificando e ampliando quelle già esistenti, e controllando che le informazioni che contengono siano basate su fonti credibili. E ha portato, quest'anno, a una discussione accesissima e durata un mese – dal 25 ottobre al 24 novembre – che è finita con un cambiamento netto nel tono dell'ultima raccolta fondi, che ora trasmette un'idea più realistica del quadro finanziario di Wikipedia. [For a long time, this discrepancy between the alarmist and slightly "blackmail-ish" tone of the fundraising banners and the Wikimedia Foundation's economic status has made uncomfortable some of the volunteers that work on the development of the encyclopedia by creating new pages, editing and expanding the already existent ones, and verifying that the information included in them is based on reliable sources. And this year, (the same discrepancy) has led to an extremely heated discussion that lasted a month - from 25 October to 24 November - and ended up with clear changes in the tone of the latest fundraising campaign, which now conveys a more realistic idea of Wikipedia's economic framework.]
  • Čiapaitė, Justina; Lyskoit, Violeta (January 3, 2023). "106 Funny Wikipedia Edits Internet Vandals Snuck Into Wiki Articles". Bored Panda. Retrieved January 4, 2023. However, as commonly said, once something is up on the internet, it's held in cyberspace forever. Thus, thanks to the invention of screenshots and Wikipedia's extensive collection of version history, the many funny Wikipedia edits are saved and documented, and trolling Wikipedia moments never go unnoticed or forgotten.
  • Gardner, Frank (January 7, 2023). "Wikipedia owner denies Saudi infiltration claim". BBC. Retrieved January 8, 2023. Citing "sources with knowledge of Wikimedia's operations", Smex and Dawn said at least one of the 16 were Saudi users, serving as agents for the government to "promote positive content about the government and delete content critical of the government". Wikimedia said this is "unlikely to be the case", adding that some users "who may have been Saudi" were among those banned.
  • "The Cochrane-Wikipedia Partnership in 2023". Cochrane. January 10, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023. Cochrane partnered in 2014 with Wikipedia, with the joint goal of improving the quality and reliability of human health-related articles that people are accessing online.
  • Cohen, Noam (January 22, 2023). "The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 22, 2023. But in recent years, something has begun to change. Wikipedia's editors are no longer simply citing dated sources; instead, they are hashing out how someone would want to be understood. But even though these deliberations touch on some of the most controversial issues around—and reach conclusions that reverberate far beyond Wikipedia's pages—they are shockingly civil and thoughtful for the internet today.
  • "Wikipedia Middle East editors ban shows risks for creators". Bangkok Post. January 26, 2023. Retrieved January 26, 2023. Beirut-based digital rights group SMEX and human rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) said that Saudi authorities had recruited Wikipedia's most reputed administrators in the country to control information about the kingdom.


February

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March

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  • Anon (March 1, 2023). "Who watches the Wikipedia editors?". The Critic (modern magazine). Retrieved March 1, 2023. As it turned out, there are plenty of weirdos — and "weirdo" is an apt description for most regular Wikipedia editors — who were keen to spend long hours editing an online encyclopaedia for no fee and no credit.
  • Villena, Cole (March 1, 2023). "Depths of Wikipedia's Annie Rauwerda Is Obsessed With Accessible Information". Nashville Scene. Retrieved March 1, 2023. The editing community is really inspiring to me, because it's all these very, very smart people who can't handle information being incomplete or wrong, and so they get addicted to creating the encyclopedia together," Rauwerda says. "It's really wholesome people who expect nothing and just care so much.
  • Richardson, Anna (March 1, 2023). "Politics in Latin America Class Takes on Wikipedia". Hamilton College. Retrieved March 2, 2023. "Students loved being able to see how many people read the article after they made edits. Many talked about how usually, when [they] write a paper, nobody else sees it, but on Wikipedia, all these other people got to look at [their] work," Sullivan explained.
  • Fuhrer, Armin (March 2, 2023). "Historiker erkennen auf Wikipedia »Holocaust-Verzerrung«" [Historians Recognize “Holocaust Distortion” on Wikipedia]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Jan Grabowksi observes: "Since the publication of our article, there has been a lot of paraphrasing activity on Wikipedia," he told SPIEGEL. "Some items we mentioned are now being rewritten, and some others may not be visible at all."
  • Sidman, Fern (March 2, 2023). "Conspiracy to Falsify Facts About the Holocaust by Polish Editors for Wikipedia Being Investigated by Top Brass". Jewish Voice. Retrieved March 11, 2023. Typically, disputes among Wikipedia editors are resolved through community consensus mechanisms, but occasionally those mechanisms fail and allegations are brought to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, a panel of elected editors known as Wikipedia's Supreme Court.
  • Domagała-Pereira, Katarzyna (March 3, 2023). "Der Spiegel o fałszowaniu historii Holokaustu w Wikipedii" [Der Spiegel on Wikipedia's falsification of the Holocaust story]. Deutsche Welle (in Polish). Retrieved March 11, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Der Spiegel reports that Grabowski and Klein refer to figures of about 2 million murdered non-Jewish Poles and 3 million Polish Jews. However, a group of Polish Wikipedia authors claim that the number of murdered non-Jewish Poles was 3 million, reports the German magazine.
  • "The Wikipedia dilemma". The Nation (Pakistan). March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023. Recently, Pakistan banned Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia over some blasphemous material. It is a matter of fact that Pakistan has been quite serious about such content but on the other hand, the free site of information has surely been a blessing for the state.
  • Tunk, Carola (March 6, 2023). "Forscher: Wikipedia-Gruppe „verzerrt" absichtlich Holocaust-Geschichte in Polen" [Researcher: Wikipedia group intentionally 'distorting' Holocaust history in Poland]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] Who is responsible for the intentional falsification of history on Wikipedia? I don't know these people, so I don't know who they are. We have no evidence, but it is likely that these people are motivated by ideological motives. According to a certain methodology that has been seen left and right in Poland, namely that our past is glorious, we are not to blame and so on. We have no evidence that this small group of people doing what we write about is in any way connected to the Polish government - but they are doing exactly what the Polish government would like to see.
  • "Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?". Evening Standard. March 7, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023. Aversion to conflict and an impression of the site's community as misogynistic were both cited as reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, by former Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner.
  • Olbert, Frank (March 11, 2023). "Verzerrte Enzyklopädie: Wie auf Wikipedia versucht wird, Polens Rolle in der Schoa reinzuwaschen" [Distorted Encyclopedia: How Wikipedia tries to whitewash Poland's role in the Shoah]. Jüdische Allgemeine [de; bar] (in German). Retrieved March 11, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] In their conclusion, Grabowski and Klein urge the administrators and the Wikipedia Foundation to pay more attention to the contributions on the platform. A reference could be the Croatian Wikipedia, which had been hijacked by right-wing agitators, but was recaptured and improved following the intervention of the foundation and the community mobilized by it.
  • "Wikipedia denies political bias despite censoring marriage supporters". Christian Institute. March 11, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023. When referring to individuals who claim to be the opposite sex, Wikipedia's style guide pushes editors to use words that "reflect the person's most recent expressed gender self-identification". It also prevents editors from mentioning a person's name associated with their biological sex, even in quotations, if they were not "notable" under that name.
  • Grinzweig Jacobsson, Anna (March 12, 2023). "Fler borde ifrågasätta Wikipedias Förintelsefakta" [More people should question Wikipedia's Holocaust facts]. Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved March 12, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] The report was released on February 10, quickly spread widely and has attracted attention also in Wikipedia groups, where they have already begun to correct certain factual errors that the two researchers drew attention to. It has also been pointed out that a similar systematic falsification work is going on at Wikipedia when it comes to information about global warming.
  • "Wikipedias forfalskning av historien om Holocaust" [Wikipedia's falsification of the history of the Holocaust]. Norge Idag (in Norwegian). March 17, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023. [Translated with Google Translate] But Wikipedia takes the accusations seriously. The Arbitration Committee, or ArbCom, decided to look into the claims without receiving a formal request. No one can remember the committee taking such a step during the nearly two decades of its existence.
  • Alt Miller, Yvette (March 19, 2023). "Wikipedia Editors Deliberately Distorted Holocaust Articles". Aish HaTorah. Retrieved March 19, 2023. These revelations about Wikipedia's Holocaust coverage come in the context of growing ignorance about the Holocaust around the world. One recent survey found that 63% of Americans do not know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
  • Retzloff, Bridget; Kelly, Katy (March 20, 2023). "Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it". The Conversation. Retrieved March 20, 2023. Here are what we see as the main pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia as a source of information in their research and assignments, though anyone can consider these tips when using Wikipedia.
  • "Making Wikipedia Safer: Enforcement Guidelines for Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct provide a model for governing online behavior". Asian News International. March 23, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023. While user behavior policies have long existed on the site, there has been no universal standard for acceptable behavior across all Wikimedia projects.
  • Cadorniga, Carlos "Callie" (March 25, 2023). "New Streamer's Wikipedia Page Has Empty "Controversy" Section Just In Case". Hard Drive. Retrieved March 26, 2023. These things are just inevitable; might as well save some time now," said Wikipedia editor Bryan Jobs. "He hasn't done anything at all wrong yet, but it's only a matter of time. I know you're probably thinking 'but this streamer just plays Mario games with his friends, how could he possibly do something insanely problematic?' Give it a week.
  • Norberg, Sara (March 27, 2023). "Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap, One Edit at a Time". Tufts Now. Retrieved March 31, 2023. From an informational perspective, it's important to get the right information, and it's our responsibility, if we change it, to do that," said Ray Feinleib, A25, who is majoring in English. "I'm excited to contribute, even if it's just a small edit. Knowing that someone will be better informed because of the change is a good feeling.
  • Kirkpatrick, David D. (March 27, 2023). "The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 4, 2023. To pressure others to shun Lord Energy, Alp added dubious allegations about the company to the Wikipedia entries for Credit Suisse and for an Algerian oil monopoly.
  • Germain, Thomas (March 29, 2023). "Listen to Wikipedia's Cute New Sound Logo". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 30, 2023. The winning sound features recordings of pages turning in a book, mouse clicks, and keyboard taps over a bed of warm synthesizer tones.
  • Porter, Jon (March 29, 2023). "Prepare your ears for Wikipedia's 'sound of all human knowledge'". The Verge. Retrieved March 30, 2023. With more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called "sound logo" for Wikipedia and its other projects.
  • Hollender, Alex (March 30, 2023). "Take a peek behind the process of redesigning Wikipedia's desktop interface". Fast Company. Retrieved March 30, 2023. With this in mind it becomes clear that any Wikipedia article is only as accurate as the sources from which the facts were gathered. You can of course question the motives or skill level of the editors, who are the ones going out, gathering the facts, and then weaving them together into coherent articles.
  • Hunt, Simon (March 30, 2023). "Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it". Evening Standard. Retrieved March 30, 2023. "The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I've seen so far is…people are cautious in the sense that we're aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because there seems like there's a lot of possibility here," Wales said.
  • Gunn, Aidan (March 30, 2023). "Students, faculty learn to edit Wikipedia articles". Campus Current. Retrieved March 31, 2023. "I hope that it's empowering," The event's organizer, Reverdy, said. "[I hope] that [the event] encourages folks to get involved with something that they feel upset about or passionate about, and that they want to contribute to or make a difference in. Because there's so many opportunities to do that."
  • Munsell, Mike (March 31, 2023). "Wikipedia has a climatetech problem". RMI (energy organization). Retrieved April 1, 2023. That's where you come in. Canary readers include some of the smartest, most knowledgeable climatetech professionals out there, and I'm going to nudge you all to try your hand at honing Wikipedia pages related to climate, especially ones that cover advancements in clean energy and climate solutions.


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June

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  • Tonsing, Suanmuanlian (June 1, 2023). "Manipur & Wikipedia: How Kuki-Zo's Digital Inequity Has Caused a Narrative Shift". The Quint. Retrieved June 5, 2023. Due to the lack of representation worldwide, the distortion of facts and removal of information on Wikipedia pose a serious problem for the tribals in Manipur. There has been a significant increase in the number of viewers on the Wikipedia pages of Hmar, Thadou, Kuki, Paite, and Vaiphei since the outbreak of violence on 2 May 2023.
  • "Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - Ifax". Reuters. June 6, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023. Wikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow sent its armed forces into Ukraine.
  • Klein, Shira (June 14, 2023). "The shocking truth about Wikipedia's Holocaust disinformation". The Forward. Retrieved June 16, 2023. In theory, anyone can edit Wikipedia; no editor has any ownership over any article. Yet over the years, anyone who tried to fix distortions related to Holocaust disinformation faced a team of fierce editors who guard old lies and produce new ones.
  • Smith, Kellie (June 15, 2023). "How to write a Wikipedia page for your charity". Charity Digital. Retrieved June 28, 2023. But creating a Wikipedia page isn't easy. This article explains the strict review process and guides you through the different steps to take to hopefully get your page approved. It's also important to be aware that anyone can add information to and edit Wikipedia pages. This means you would need to regularly monitor your page to make sure its accurate, which can prove time-consuming.
  • Fatima, Zoha (June 16, 2023). "People are charmed to learn that Wikipedia editors hang out in a public library once a month". Upworthy. Retrieved June 16, 2023. Viewers were blown away by how wholesome and nice it is that Wikipedia editors have a place to gather every month. They might even receive a few more volunteers to join the meeting.
  • Radhakrishnan, Vignesh (June 23, 2023). "Data Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles". The Hindu. Retrieved June 23, 2023. Interestingly, Cebuano, a regional language spoken widely in the Philippines, has the second-highest number of articles in Wikipedia (61,23,197). The Cebuano entries are written in Latin alphabets. However, news reports show that many entries were made in Cebuano by a bot.
  • Washington, Robin (June 29, 2023). "To fix Wikipedia's Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names". The Forward. Retrieved July 4, 2023. "Academia must also play its part to keep Wikipedia accurate," Klein continues. "Scholars should uncover Wikipedia's weaknesses and flag them for editors to fix, instead of snubbing Wikipedia as unreliable." While I absolutely understand Holocaust denial as something to be constantly combated, I respectfully disagree. By participating in Wikipedia's laborious processes of review, academics give legitimacy to an inherently flawed enterprise.
  • Andaloro, Angelo (June 30, 2023). "20 Wikipedia Pages That Will Absolutely Suck You In For Hours". BuzzFeed. Retrieved July 4, 2023. But today I'm here to talk about Wikipedia, the best rabbit hole in existence. Here are some Wiki pages I bet you're gonna lose some hours to:


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November

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  • Mendelle, Hava (November 2, 2023). "Wikipedia at war". Spectator Australia. Retrieved November 2, 2023. Wikipedia itself notes its journalistic bias here stating that sources are predominately derived from liberal news sources. [...] The danger in this, for a society relying solely on Wikipedia, is that conflicting research is not presented for a broader perspective which is crucial during major events when page views increase significantly. The first week of any major event has the most views and this wanes over time as seen below in the example on the 2023 Israel-Hamas War. [Chart of page views over time to that article is shown.]
  • Adorney, Julian (November 6, 2023). "Is it possible to save Wikipedia?". Washington Examiner. Retrieved November 13, 2023. But Wikipedia's problems run deeper. Unlike sites such as Slate or National Review, people go to Wikipedia looking for neutral information on a topic. When they seek neutral information and instead find left-wing talking points, it's bad for our public discourse as a whole.
  • Stokel-Walker, Chris (November 9, 2023). "Wikipedia is more likely to cover events in richer countries than poorer ones, new research finds". Fast Company. Retrieved November 9, 2023. Ruprechter says that the problem is well-known among those overseeing the online encyclopedia. "I think the Wikimedia Foundation is pretty aware of these—I don't want to say biases—maybe it's more like a knowledge gap or deficiency," he says.
  • Buckfire, Hayden (November 9, 2023). "Should you trust Wikipedia?". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved November 13, 2023. It has been reported that government and corporate employees have edited Wikipedia to remove negative information about their respective employers. ... While events like these are concerning, it is important to note that Wikipedia is still broadly accurate.
  • Ro, Crystal (November 16, 2023). "What's The Most Disturbing Wikipedia Page About A Missing Person?". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 17, 2023. So, tell us, what's the most unsettling Wikipedia page about a missing person (or persons) you've ever read?
  • Benjakob, Omer (November 17, 2023). "Blame Games and Edit Wars as Wikipedia Gets Pulled Into the Israel-Gaza Conflict". Haaretz. Retrieved November 19, 2023. The issue of the government's responsibility and Netanyahu's accountability specifically has tested Hebrew Wikipedia's volunteer editors, who are expected to work together to reach a consensus and to describe even the thorniest of political issues with neutral phrasing, backed up with sources. ... Unlike many Wikipedias in languages with a global span, like English, Spanish or Arabic, Hebrew Wikipedia resembles its Polish or Hungarian counterparts in being more of an "Israeli Wikipedia." It can be seen as having an implicit pro-Israeli bias.
  • Klein, Shira (November 17, 2023). "Exposing the Holocaust Lies on the Dark Side of Wikipedia". Chapman News. Retrieved November 21, 2023. Most people trust that Wikipedia's editors will protect them from distortion and lies. ... The work I did with Dr. Grabowski showed that this system isn't nearly as strong as we'd like it to be, and that it will take effort to fortify it.
  • Olatunde, Isaac (November 20, 2023). "Why do many Nigerians fail the Wikipedia notability criteria?". Peoples Gazette. Retrieved November 20, 2023. The truth is that Nigerian celebrities could easily meet Wikipedia's notability criteria if they allowed enough time for them to be significantly covered in the media. This way, a Wikipedia editor with no conflict of interest will notice them and write about them on Wikipedia.
  • Rauwerda, Annie (November 23, 2023). "Watching the Napoleon Movie? Don't Forget to Read His Wikipedia Page". Slate. Retrieved November 27, 2023. Unlike the encyclopedias of yore, Wikipedia shows which entries people are looking up—and which ones nobody is reading (a tireless study by an admin named Colin Morris revealed that many of the least-trafficked articles are on obscure moth species). Without fail, the box office, particularly for "based on true events" flicks, drives hordes of Wikipedia traffic.

December

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  • "Le cose più viste su Wikipedia quest'anno" [The most seen things on Wikipedia this year]. Il Post (in Italian). Italy. December 6, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023. Wikimedia, la fondazione che mantiene Wikipedia, ha pubblicato la lista delle voci più lette del 2023 della sua famosa enciclopedia online nella versione in inglese, la più ricca e letta tra le tante disponibili in tutto il mondo. L'elenco può essere considerato per questo il più rappresentativo per farsi un'idea dei temi più cercati e letti sia nei paesi dove si parla l'inglese, sia in quelli che lo utilizzano come seconda lingua e in misura minore in quelli che ci ricorrono all'occorrenza (come capita a molti utenti italiani). [Wikimedia, the foundation that manages Wikipedia, has published a list of the most read articles in 2023 on the English version of its famous online encyclopedia, the largest and most read between the many [versions] available all around the world. For this reason, the list can be considered the most ideal one to get a sense of the most searched and read themes both in English-speaking countries and the ones which use [English] as their second language, as well as the ones which navigate on it occasionally (as it happens for many Italian users).]
  • Padilla, Sergio (December 6, 2023). "Wikipedia releases its top 25 most-viewed pages of 2023". CNN. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia has received more than 84 billion page views so far in 2023, according to data the foundation shared with CNN.
  • Murphy, Aislinn (December 6, 2023). "ChatGPT's Wikipedia page looked at by internet users more than any other in 2023". Fox Business. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Curious internet users looked at ChatGPT's Wikipedia page more than any other English article on the open-source online encyclopedia website this year, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • Gibbons, Katie (December 7, 2023). "ChatGPT beats Barbie and Oppenheimer to top Wikipedia searches". The Sunday Times. Retrieved December 10, 2023. The top countries that accessed English Wikipedia overall to date in 2023 are the United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion) — followed by India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion) and Australia (2.56 billion), according to data shared with the Associated Press.
  • "Wikipedia's most-viewed articles of 2023 revealed". Sky News. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Themes in the top 25 also included cinematic searches, with summer blockbusters Oppenheimer, Barbie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 making the list.
  • Breen, Amanda (December 7, 2023). "Wikipedia's 25 Most Popular Pages of 2023 Reveal What We All Can't Stop Thinking About". Entrepreneur. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Wikipedia's list also reflected the substantial cultural and digital impact of Indian audiences, CNN reported. Among the top five were entries related to the 2023 Cricket World Cup and the Indian Premier League, resonating with the sport's massive fan base in India.
  • Itelson, Matt (December 7, 2023). "SF State students write Wikipedia bios for unsung heroes of STEM". San Francisco State University. Retrieved December 11, 2023. Nine of the biographies compiled by SF State students are live on Wikipedia. The students' writing brings visibility to living professionals whose legacies have yet to be completed. They include chemical engineer Miguel Modestino, sustainable industrial engineer Enrique Lomnitz and Procter & Gamble executive and microbiologist Adrian Land.
  • Cant, Ash (December 7, 2023). "Wikipedia's top articles from 2023 reveal our dark curiosity". The New Daily. Retrieved December 11, 2023. In 2023, it seemed people couldn't get enough cricket, with the 2023 Cricket World Cup coming in third overall for article reads and the Indian Premier League coming in fourth.
  • "Dive into the weird and wonderful Depths of Wikipedia". WBUR. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023. "In the early days of Wikipedia, there were just weird disparities in the coverage," Rauwerda says. "It goes to show how 'nerdy' the Wikipedia editor base was and how much it didn't really reflect the broader world."
  • Harrison, Stephen (December 8, 2023). "Why Wikipedia's Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp". Slate. Retrieved December 10, 2023. Angry road editors like Ben are up in arms, claiming that this hard-line interpretation of the guideline does not reflect the realities of the situation. With local newspapers going out of business left and right, there are rarely any other sources to draw from for these kinds of articles. Why not allow Wikipedians to cite from DOT, which is responsible for publishing highway routes?
  • Smith, Steven (December 8, 2023). "Wikipedia's top articles of the year show what we're really interested in". Wales Online. Retrieved December 10, 2023. ChatGPT topping the list shows how the rise of AI grabbing people's attention. Wikimedia said: "The fastest-growing consumer application in history recently reached its one-year anniversary.
  • Brown, Lonnie (December 9, 2023). "Have you gotten $2.75 worth of info from Wikipedia? Free encyclopedia is seeking donations". The Ledger. Retrieved December 17, 2023. Wikipedia operates under the Wikimedia Foundation, which has been rated as a 100% four-star foundation by Charity Navigator.
  • Gutoskey, Ellen (December 10, 2023). "Wikipedia's 25 Most Popular Pages of 2023". Mental Floss. Retrieved December 10, 2023. If there's an overall MVP of the list, it's probably cricket. Pages relating to the sport took four of the top 10 spots: the 2023 Cricket World Cup, the Indian Premier League, the Cricket World Cup, and the 2023 Indian Premier League. But even cricket couldn't compete with the buzziest tech topic of 2023—artificial intelligence. ChatGPT came in first place, with a staggering 49.5 million page views.
  • Tezuka, Shuichi (December 11, 2023). "Introducing Justapedia". Quillette. Retrieved December 11, 2023. Until 2021, media coverage of Wikipedia usually depicted it as an overall force for good, describing it in terms such as "the 'good cop' of the internet." But within the past two years, this coverage has undergone a shift in focus, with a greater portion of recent media attention being devoted to how Wikipedia being is manipulated for reasons such as politics, self-promotion, or to propagate hoaxes.
  • Teo, Kai Xiang (December 14, 2023). "The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages". Business Insider. Retrieved December 15, 2023. A screenshot of the Wikimedia's 2021 IRS filing that zeroes in on executive salary was shared on X on Tuesday. The post has since garnered 9 million views and 5,000 likes on the platform — and it kicked off a conversation about salaries in the tech world.
  • "Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down Amid 'Foreign Agent' Threats". The Moscow Times. December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 20, 2023. According to Kozlovsky, the decision to shutter the organization came just hours after he was forced to resign from his job at Moscow State University's Department of Psychology, where he had worked for nearly 25 years.
  • Mendelle, Have (December 23, 2023). "Is Wikipedia struggling to maintain neutrality in times of political unrest?". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved December 23, 2023. Yet, Wikipedia's collective consensus building to achieve neutrality is an assumption that is naïve at best, revealing what I believe to be unsettling editor bias on the platform.
  • Duggan, Kyle (December 23, 2023). "Wikipedia Regretfully Announces It Will Have to Start Killing Hostages". Hard Drive. Retrieved December 25, 2023. "Wikipedia is still not for sale," said founder Jimmy Wales as he struggled with the safety lever on his AK47 and gestured to the blindfolded figure kneeling on the floor in front of him.
  • "Arab Language Wikipedia in solidarity with Palestinians in war". Ynet. December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023. The group decided to shut down its site on Saturday for 24 hours "in support of the residents of the Gaza Strip and in protest of the continuing attacks, while calling for an end to the war and the spread of peace."
  • Leonard, Christian (December 31, 2023). "Visits to these California cities' Wikipedia pages surged in 2023". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 1, 2023. But in 2023, the number of visits to a few cities' pages doubled or even quadrupled compared with 2022, often related to several of the year's biggest news events — some of them tragic.


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