Wikipedia Reaches Another Milestone

On Tuesday, Wikipedia celebrates its 18th birthday. If the massive crowdsourced encyclopedia project were human, then in most countries, it would just now be considered a legal adult. But in truth, the free online encyclopedia has long played the role coque samsung a40 portugal of the Internet’s good grown up.

Wikipedia has grown enormously since its inception: It now boasts 5.7 million articles in English and pulled in 92 billion page views last year.

The site has also undergone a major reputation change. If you ask Siri, Alexa, or Google Home a general knowledge question, it will likely pull the response from Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia has been cited in more than 400 judicial opinions, according to a 2010 paper in the Yale Journal of Law Technology. Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic. And YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki announced a plan last March to pair misleading conspiracy videos with links to corresponding articles from Wikipedia. Facebook has also released coque iphone canabis a feature using Wikipedia’s content to provide users more information about the publication coque iphone 4 dragon ball source for articles in their feed.

Wikipedia’s rise is driven by a crucial difference in values that separates it from its peers in the top 10 websites: On Wikipedia, truth trumps self expression.

Last year, Wikipedia co founder Jimmy Wales told NPR that Wikipedia has largely avoided the “fake news” problem, raising coque kawaii samsung a40 the question of what the encyclopedia does differently than other popular websites. As Brian Feldman suggested in New York magazine, perhaps it’s simply the willingness within the Wikipedia community to delete. It’s a striking contrast to Twitter, which allows lies and inflammatory statements to remain on its platform for years.

The Wikipedia community has also embraced automated technologies to protect the integrity of the encyclopedia. While YouTube scans videos for potential content violations using its Content ID database, the community of Wikipedia editors have created editing bots that go further by making determinations about content quality. For example, ClueBot NG quickly reverts probable vandalism based on its machine learning algorithm and a database of common indicators such as expletives and poor punctuation. In 2016, YouTube courted controversy for attempting to enforce its policy against inappropriate language, with many vloggers alleging censorship. But a civility requirement makes sense for Wikipedians because the community shares a vision: to build a better encyclopedia.

Gender bias on Wikipedia received media coque iphone moshi attention last year when Donna Strickland won a Nobel Prize, and at the time of her award did not have a Wikipedia page. (An earlier entry on Strickland had been rejected due to lack of “notability.”) Katherine Maher, executive director of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, responded with a commentary observing that the encyclopedia mirrors, but coque iphone 6 citations does not cause, the world’s biases.

It’s coque iphone 6 moxie worth emphasising, however, how the volunteer Wikipedia community is gradually moving the needle. The volunteer group WikiProject Women in Red, co founded by Rosie Stephenson Goodknight and Roger Bamkin in 2015, has committed to reduce the site’s gender gap and has already increased the percentage of female biographies from about 15 to 17.8. Do it yourself initiatives such asAfroCROWD and Art+Feminism host edit a thons, coque samsung a40 slim organised public events where volunteers help improve the encyclopedia’s coverage of underrepresented groups.

Meanwhile, YouTube stars coque iphone 5s silicone or are making millions on video games and Instagram influencers are posting fake sponsored content to attract sponsors. Outside the Wiki bubble, the Internet glares with adolescent self promotion.

Contrast those commercial stars with Jim Henderson, 70, who has spent the past 12 years biking the boroughs of New York and snapping photographs for Wikipedia. As reported by the Queens Daily Eagle, Henderson has uploaded thousands of original photos, where they have greatly helped community news coverage. Henderson devotes his time on a volunteer basis, for the public benefit, and without expecting compensation or social media likes.

Millennials coined the word “adulting” to describe mundane acts of grown up self sufficiency. But perhaps the term could be expanded coque iphone 6 incassable amazon to include moral maturity and coque iphone 6splus rose repeated contributions toward the common good. As Wikipedia crosses this milestone Tuesday, it’s worth acknowledging coque samsung a40 plume that at its best its community has long been adulting, the contributors coque iphone 5 chelsea modeling a selflessness that’s increasingly rare coque iphone 5s silicone overwatch online.

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