Wikipedia

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/2/2023
  

  Native Wikipedians Fight Back against Erasure of Indigenous History

  by Kyle Keeler

  While the internet is often seen as a hotbed of revisionism and "political correctness," Wikipedia editors who seek the inclusion of indigenous perspectives on American history often are stymied by resistant editors and the platform's rules, which discount the reliability of new, critical scholarship. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/2022
  

  Physicist's Side Project: 1,750 Wikipedia Bios for Overlooked Women Scientists

  Popular understanding of the history of science and the contemporary role of women in STEM is undermined by the further underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia biography pages. Jess Wade is working to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Sh!tpost Podcast
  1/20/2022
  

  Ksenia Coffman Corrects Nazi History on Wikipedia

  Wikipedian Ksenia Coffman, who has established herself as an expert at rooting out propaganda, Nazi apologetics and misinformation from the internet's encyclopedia, joins far-right watchdog Jared Holt to discuss her work and the tensions between accuracy and accessibility in online history.

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• SOURCE: Wired
  9/7/2021
  

  Ksenia Coffman's Struggle to Root out Nazi Sympathy on Wikipedia

  A downside of Wikipedia's culture of consensus and openness means that articles on Nazism often conceal, soft-peddle, or otherwise diminish the scope of Nazi crimes, frequently relying on dubious sources, deceptive quotations, or falsification. 

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• SOURCE: Insider
  4/11/2021
  

  Challenging the Massive Gender Imbalance on Wikipedia: Volunteers Write Women Back into History

  An ongoing volunteer project seeks to fill in the gaps in the online encyclopedia by researching and writing entries about women and women's history. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/27/2020
  

  Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage

  Because Wikipedia archives each version of articles as they are edited, it offers a rich resource for tracking how knowledge of a subject changes. 

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• SOURCE: CBS Boston
  3/28/2020
  

  Boston Colleges To Celebrate Women’s History Month By Editing Wikipedia Pages

  Students at Simmons University and Wentworth Institute of Technology are honoring Women's History Month by improving the online representation of female activists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/19
  

  History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia.

  Only about 18 percent of Wikipedia’s biographical articles are about women. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3-16-18
  

  Historians at the Rochester Institute of Technology are bolstering Wikipedia’s archive of entries on women’s history

  by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia

  Why? Wikipedia's coverage of women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male.

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• SOURCE: Blog
  2-4-15
  

  Historian Michelle Moravec organizes virtual edit-a-thon to Write Women Back into History on Wikipedia

  by Michelle Moravec

  It's to correct a bias that shows up in the English and Russian language versions of Wikipedia.

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• SOURCE: Russia Today
  7-25-14
  

  ‘Google must not be left to censor history’ – Wikipedia founder

  The power to “censor history” should not be left in Google’s hands.

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• 7-16-14
  

  Castro ordered JFK killed? Wiki entry edited by someone in the government says so.

  by HNN Editor

  Who's making the changes?  That's unknown.

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• Redressing Wikipedia's Historical Gender Gap

  by Fatima Ahmed-Farouta

  Image via Shutterstock.Wikipedia has a problem with women.Statistics released by the Wikimedia Foundation point to a huge gender disparity in the ranks of contributors. Women only constitute approximately 15 percent of Wiki editors. This isn't a new problem -- a 2011 University of Minnesota study of gender ratios on Wikipedia came to the same conclusions, and noted that the Wiki gender gap hadn't changed significantly over the preceding five years.

• SOURCE: GlobalPost via Salon
  3-19-13
  

  Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis?

  KYIV, Ukraine — Click on a Wikipedia topic about optometry in the Polish language or Newtonian mechanics in Ukrainian and the article that pops up may well be a college student thesis.That’s because universities in Poland and Ukraine are exploring new requirements. Instead of cribbing research from Wikipedia for papers that will probably only gather dust, advocates of the idea say students would be better off writing their own Wikipedia articles.Although critics warn that Wikipedia articles are no substitute for rigorous academic papers, supporters say more than simply putting more information at public disposal, erasing boundaries between the internet and academia will invigorate scholarship by enabling it to benefit everyone.

• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
  3-10-13
  

  Claire Potter: Prikipedia? Or, Looking for the Women on Wikipedia

  Claire Potter blogs at Tenured Radical.To celebrate women’s history month, I have decided to tweet an historical fact about a woman, or women, every day in March. Silly? Perhaps. Fun? Why yes: I’m enjoying it enormously. Women’s history rocks.So far, women as different as abolitionist Harriet Tubman, the Empress Josephine Bonaparte, and Svetlana Alliluyeva have appeared in the Twitter feed to the right of this post. I find these women by simply entering the date in Wikipedia’s search box: a list of events, births and deaths show up in an entry devoted to that day. Presto!Well, not so fast.