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Do you trust Wikipedia with your health? Med students aim to make it better

Health & Medicine

When you get sick, do you look to Wikipedia to help you figure out what ails you? A California medical professor thinks if you’re going to do that — and many do — he might as well improve the quality of those articles. And he’s getting med students to help him.

Cuba’s version of Wikipedia

Environment

The inner workings of Wikipedia

Environment

Holly, Tea, and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Top Wikipedia in 2012

The World in Words

Top of the Hour: Dark Day for Wikipedia, Morning Headlines

A World Without Wikipedia

The anti piracy laws being considered in the U.S. have produced worldwide internet turmoil. Perhaps you are already aware that the giant Wikipedia website in English is down not because of some pirates, but in protest to what the Wikipedia people think this would do to the internet. Well Wikipedia’s message today is that we […]

The World

Who writes Wikipedia?

Arts, Culture & Media

The collaborative online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia, celebrates its 10-year anniversary on Saturday. It’s the largest encyclopedia ever made, with three and a half million articles in English alone and seventeen million articles globally. To create and edit all of that information, the site relies on volunteers. They call themselves ?Wikipedians.” Andrea James, a Wikipedian, shares […]

The World

Wikipedia to impose editing restrictions

Global Politics

Soon, not everyone will be able to edit every article on Wikipedia. The move aims to curb abuse by vandals, but it also complicates Wikipedia’s wide-open ethos. The Takeaway speaks to Noam Cohen of The New York Times.

The World

What Would Xenu Do? Wikipedia Shuts Site To Scientologists

Conflict & Justice

Scientologists are no longer welcome to edit entries on Wikipedia. This policy change came after a number of users with IP addresses associated with the Church of Scientology were making edits that allegedly defied the site’s nonpartisan goals.