Wikimedia Community Votes Against Crypto Donations: Here’s Why
The community of Wikimedia Foundation contributors have asked the organisation to not accept crypto donations. The non-profit organisation that hosts…
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Wikipedia editors vote to block cryptocurrency donations
Wikipedia editors have voted in favor of dropping cryptocurrency from the Wikimedia Foundation's donation options. As Ars Technica reports, an editor for the…
Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further.
Did you know that there’s a Swiss political party dedicated to opposing the use of PowerPoint? That some people believe Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was…
Prominent editor of Russian Wikipedia pages detained in Belarus
Authorities in Belarus have arrested and detained Mark Bernstein, one of the top editors of Russian Wikipedia, according to local publication Zerkalo.…
A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus
The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein, according…
Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over Ukraine invasion article
Editors at the Russian version of Wikipedia say the country's communications regulator has threatened to block the site. They shared a notice from…
Russian-Language Wikipedia Threatened to Be Blocked by Moscow Over ‘Invasion’ Article
Russian authorities have threatened to block Wikipedia's Russian-language site over an article that mentions deaths among Ukrainian civilians as well as the…
Moscow Threatens to Block Russian-Language Wikipedia Over ‘Invasion’ Article
Russian authorities have threatened to block Wikipedia's Russian-language site over an article that mentions deaths among Ukrainian civilians as well as the…
Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto
Whenever a fresh disaster happens on the blockchain, increasingly I learn about it from the same destination: a two-month old website whose name suggests…
Kumbh to Gandhi, biryani to dosa: How online warriors vandalise Wikipedia pages
(Vandalism is measured as the number of users whose edits on a particular page were reversed by others in the Wikipedia community. Though not always…