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fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 week ago

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they handle complaints, moderate content, and protect their users' ability to speak and share information.
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs

The org revealed the new partnerships in a post celebrating its 25th birthday, and which points out it is among the world's ten most-visited websites, and the only one to be run by a nonprofit. The post notes that 250,000 editors work on at least one Wikipedia article each month, and that editors make 324 changes each minute as they contribute to the 65 million-plus articles the site contains. 1.5 billion unique devices reach Wikipedia each month.
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fromWIRED
4 months ago

Ted Cruz Targets Wikipedia Over 'Ideological Bias'

Senator Ted Cruz formally requested documents from the Wikimedia Foundation asserting Senate committee jurisdiction over online platforms and pressuring Wikipedia for responses.
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