wikipedia
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Wikipedia Is Joining The Fight To Update Australia’s Fair Use Laws
“Wikipedia uses fair use to share knowledge across the world. Soon Australia could too, with your help.” If you head to Wikipedia in the next three weeks, you’ll see this banner plastered on the website, as it joins the campaign to bring Australia’s fair use laws up to date.
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Microsoft Maps Put Melbourne In The Sea (But It’s All Wikipedia’s Fault)
If you searched on Bing maps last week for Melbourne, you would have instead been re-directed to a spot in the North Pacific Ocean, off the East coast of Japan. How did this happen? Bing was using inaccurate information from Wikipedia, namely, Wikipedia didn’t include the all-important South on the co-ordinates.
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Jimmy Wales Got Censored At A Chinese Internet Conference
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is familiar with people putting made-up bullshit online. As I mentioned, he founded Wikipedia. But this is on another level: Wales’ words got changed on a Chinese conference website to make it sound like he was pro-Chinese government surveillance.
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English Wikipedia Just Broke Five Million Posts
After fifteen years of providing 11th-hour copy+paste material for high schoolers, the English-language version of Wikipedia has just hit a milestone: five million articles.