Wikipedia:Press coverage 2024

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has been garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2024, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

January

• Long, Katherine; Newsham, Jack; Parakul, Narimes (January 6, 2024). "Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution". Business Insider. Retrieved January 8, 2024. It's not surprising that Oxman wouldn't credit Wikipedia in her doctoral dissertation: While Wikipedia is generally accurate, anyone can edit it, so teachers regularly tell their students that they should not cite the website as an authority.
• Hamilton, Fiona (January 7, 2024). "How Wikipedia is being changed to downgrade Iranian human rights atrocities". The Times. Retrieved January 8, 2024. In one case, key details were removed about the Iranian regime's mass executions. The fact that current senior officials in the regime were involved in the 1988 death commissions, in which thousands of political prisoners were killed, was also deleted.
• Rissman, Kelly (January 7, 2024). "Bill Ackman says lifting from Wikipedia is not plagiarism after his wife's work questioned". The Independent. Retrieved January 8, 2024. Is this plagiarism?" Mr Ackman asked on X. "Let's assume that in writing her dissertation Neri used Wikipedia as a dictionary for these terms and it is deemed to be plagiarism, does it any way affect the quality and originality of the research in her dissertation? I think that's worth an important discussion among the experts.
• Oeberst, Aileen; Ridderbecks, Till (January 7, 2024). "How article category in Wikipedia determines the heterogeneity of its editors". Nature. Retrieved January 8, 2024. Collaboration is not a safeguard of quality per se, however. Rather, the quality of Wikipedia articles rises with the number of editors per article as well as a greater diversity among them. Here, we address a not yet documented potential threat to those preconditions: self-selection of Wikipedia editors to articles.
• Kessel, Zach (January 8, 2024). "Wikipedia's Arabic-Language Site Spreads Anti-Israel Propaganda". National Review. Retrieved January 9, 2024. At the top of each page on the Arabic-language version of Wikipedia is a black banner showing the Wikipedia globe logo enveloped with a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh. Next to the icon is a note accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. This banner appears on every page on Arabic Wikipedia, even today's featured article, one for the prehistoric reptile deinosuchus.
• Hulkover, Ilan (January 8, 2024). "Arabic Wikipedia Pushes Pro-Hamas Propaganda On Every Single Page". The Daily Caller. Retrieved January 9, 2024. These rather blatant pro-Palestinian pages appear to stand in contrast to Wikipedia's own declared standards of covering events from a "neutral point of view," which emphasizes "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views" on a topic.
• "Russian version of Wikipedia to launch Monday, reports say". Reuters. January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024. Russia has said it was not yet planning to block Wikipedia - one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian courts, however, have handed the online encyclopaedia a series of fines over Ukraine-related content since.
• Freshwater, Paige (January 16, 2024). "People are only just realising what the Wiki in Wikipedia actually means". Daily Mirror. Retrieved January 16, 2024. It appears the 'wiki' part of its name lives up to its promise, as users usually track down the information they're searching for within a few clicks, despite the website having more than 62million articles in more than 300 languages.
• "Nearly 1,700 articles added to Azerbaijani language section of Wikipedia in past year". Azerbaijan State News Agency. January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024. Furthermore, the "Electronic Academy" department`s direct involvement and initiative resulted in the generation of 471 articles on Wikipedia, including 258 in Azerbaijani, 69 in English, 72 in Turkish, 53 in Russian, 8 in Persian, 10 in German, and 1 in Uzbek.
• Mahoutchi, Farid (January 18, 2024). "In the War for Narratives Iran's Regime Takes to Wikipedia". National Council of Resistance of Iran. Retrieved January 18, 2024. The scenario of Iran's regime utilizing Wikipedia as a battleground for narrative control highlights the necessity for individuals to approach online information, particularly on sensitive topics like Iranian politics, with a discerning mindset. Navigating the vast sea of data demands meticulous fact-checking, logical analysis, and an appreciation of historical contexts.
• Harrison, Stephen (January 19, 2024). "Yes, Copying From Wikipedia Is Plagiarism". Slate. Retrieved January 20, 2024. Within the academy, it's considered a bit lazy for a scholar to cite any encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, which are considered to be indirect, tertiary sources rather than direct sources of information. "An academic probably shouldn't be citing Encyclopedia Britannica either," said Blum.
• Rafizadeh, Majid (January 15, 2024). "The Iranian Regime Is Using Deceptive Tactics to Spread Disinformation". Townhall. Retrieved January 22, 2024. The problem extends beyond Iranian politics. Similar occurrences involving China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia infiltrating Wikipedia have been documented.
• Goldberg, Yitz (January 17, 2024). "Factual encyclopedia or Hamas propaganda? Wikipedia's shocking anti-Israel bias". Israel National News. Retrieved January 22, 2024. The articles, some of which have versions in English as well, are written in a manner that in no way can be considered unbiased, with some presenting unconfirmed reports or even blatant lies as facts.
• Cohen, Noam (January 24, 2024). "Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down, Putting Local Site in Peril". Bloomberg. Retrieved January 24, 2024. A government campaign to replace Wikipedia Russia with a more pliant alternative seems near completion.
• "Russia invests in a homemade Wikipedia, in the hope of blocking the original". The Bell. January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024. The current Russian-language Wikipedia has about 12,000 regular editors, and many of them live outside of Russia and tend towards having opposition views. Russia's register of banned sites already includes more than 120 Wikipedia articles, mostly to do with the war in Ukraine. If Ruwiki or another pro-Kremlin project can prove its worth, we can expect the original Wikipedia to be banned.

February

• Smith, Emily (February 1, 2024). "These are the UK unis everyone is obsessing over right now, based on Wikipedia views". The Tab. Retrieved February 9, 2024. So these are officially the UK unis that are the most popular, according to Wikipedia views:

• Kuznetsova, Alisa (February 6, 2024). "Is Wikipedia The Last Hope For Free Speech In Putin's Russia?". Worldcrunch. Retrieved February 9, 2024. But the challenge lies in the constant upkeep of Wikipedia articles. They require regular updates, clarifications, and error corrections. In Russian Wikipedia alone, around 700,000 corrections are made to 330,000 articles each month, with approximately 7,000 new articles created monthly. It's a substantial undertaking.

• Mahmoudi, Hassan (February 12, 2024). "The Iranian regime is using Wikipedia to spread disinformation". American Thinker. Retrieved February 13, 2024. Many people in Iran and abroad read Persian Wikipedia, and many from different countries refer to English Wikipedia. Few understand how much of what they read, all of which has the illusion of verifiability, is biased or fake.

• Allen, Melyssa (February 13, 2024). "Students Seek to Correct Gender Bias on Wikipedia". Meredith College. Retrieved February 15, 2024. Dr. Butz assigned students to contribute to "Wiki Project Women Scientists" or "Underrepresentation of Science and Women in Africa", two projects that aim to correct the gender bias on Wikipedia. The requirement was to write an article about a woman scientist who does not have a Wiki page.

• Hwang, Scott (February 14, 2024). "Hwang: Wikipedia is what the internet promised to be". The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved February 15, 2024. I'm not sure there is an answer to life, the universe and everything. But when someone figures it out, I'll know where to find it — and you can bet there'll be footnotes.

• Matchett, Conor (February 14, 2024). "WIKI TWEAKS Scottish parliament computers used numerous times to edit MSPs' Wikipedia pages – to make them more positive". The Irish Sun. Retrieved February 15, 2024. It is impossible to know whether these were done by MSPs or their staff, which could breach a Wikipedia ban on people or employees editing pages about themselves.

• "Russian presidential aide suggests copying Wikipedia in its entirety for Russian analog". Meduza. February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024. According to the presidential aide, 99% of the articles on Wikipedia are "absolutely neutral and even interesting," hence they could be used for a Russian analog. ... Medinsky called the remaining 1% of articles "enemy slander," which are "severely moderated." "You'll never get a word of truth in there," he added.

• Mendelle, Hava (February 17, 2024). "Wikipedia: how safe is crowdsourcing the truth?". Spectator Australia. Retrieved February 17, 2024. The problem here is that with millions of articles on any given topic, the majority of people are likely to read smaller articles as fact regardless of any increased bias or lack of impartiality.
• "Yoruba Wikipedia hits 25 million views in 2023". The Nation. February 17, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024. The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has also collaborated with Mr. Macaroni, a multi-award-winning Nigerian comic skit maker and actor with millions of followers on various social media, to produce a short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language on Wikipedia. The skit was viewed by millions of Nigerians. These efforts, among others, have helped to increase the traffic and readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia.
• "Retired Czechs refine Wikipedia as hobby". Agence France-Presse. February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 20, 2024. "I'm happy when I can take a look at a piece of history and find out someone has praised the entry or even added something. That's what makes me happy," Kadnerova said. "A friend of mine once told me I wasn't doing enough for mankind. So I finally am," she added.
• "The Top 10 Most Viewed K-pop Artists on Wikipedia from 2015 to 2024". Allkpop. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. From 2015 to February 2024, BTS has dominated at #1 with 90.5 million views as the most-viewed group and K-pop act overall, while Kim Taehyung, aka V, ranks as the most popular solo artist at #3 with 42.5 million views.
• Ackermann, Rebecca (February 26, 2024). "Wikimedia's CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved March 6, 2024. While Wikipedia's traffic didn't shift significantly during ChatGPT's meteoric rise, the site has seen a general decline in visitors over the last decade as a result of Google's ongoing search updates and generational changes in online behavior.
• "Wikipedia's volunteer editors to have access to all Taylor & Francis journals". The Bookseller. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Martin Wilson, head of content at T&F, added: "Wikipedia is the first port of call for so many of us when we want to find out about a new topic and Wikipedia editors do an amazing job helping to keep it as accurate and up to date as possible. We hope this extended partnership with The Wikipedia Library will make Taylor & Francis Online an even more useful resource for supporting that work."
• Harrison Dupré, Maggie (February 29, 2024). "Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal". Futurism. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Wikipedia's source guidelines now provide this striking table that sums up the site's view on CNET: that it was reliable until it was acquired by Red Ventures, unreliable for the period it was caught using AI, and that since 2020 it's suffered a "deterioration in editorial standards."
• Edwards, Benj (February 29, 2024). "AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET's reliability rating". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 6, 2024. As of this writing, Wikipedia's Perennial Sources list currently features three entries for CNET broken into three time periods:

March

• Germain, Thomas (March 1, 2024). "Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 25, 2024. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean you can write whatever you want. For one, a subject has to be notable. Your grandma's "famous" cookie recipe can't have an article unless it's actually famous. The site isn't a place for personal opinions, either.
• Harper, Christopher (March 2, 2024). "AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Considering that CNET has been in the business since 1994 and maintained a top-tier reputation on Wikipedia up until late 2020, this change came after lots of debate between Wikipedia's editors and has drawn the attention of many in the media, including some CNET staff members.
• Kraiem, Leon (March 4, 2024). "Arabic Wikipedia features site-wide "No to genocide in Gaza" banner". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 6, 2024. The banner, which is featured on every Arabic-language Wikipedia page, reads: "In solidarity with the right of the Palestinian people, no to genocide in Gaza, no to killing civilians. No to targeting hospitals and schools. No to deception and double standards. Stop the war and spread a just and comprehensive peace."
• Vinter, Robyn (March 5, 2024). "UK academic's Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world". The Guardian. Retrieved March 5, 2024. A UK academic who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world is calling for more women to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia.
• "Review highlights gender gap on Wikipedia". Phys.org. March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. The article provides a detailed view of the gender gap on Wikipedia and it stresses the importance of addressing this problem to guarantee a more equal and diverse platform.
• Ruff, Rhiannon (March 6, 2024). "Why Wikipedia can be a PR problem for political campaigns". PR Daily. Retrieved March 6, 2024. A recent paper from Oxford Internet Institution researchers specified that while incumbents' Wikipedia pages are more likely to receive higher traffic volumes during an election, pageviews for challengers are significantly more predictive of success — especially for candidates that voters perceive as "viable."
• Dunn, Riley (March 7, 2024). "Stanley Museum Wikipedia Edit-a-thon boosts diverse voices during Women's History Month". The Daily Iowan. Retrieved March 8, 2024. In response to the historic underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia articles, the Stanley Museum of Art will host a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon throughout March.
• "Int'l Women's Day: Wikimedia launches 'Wikipedia needs more women' campaign". Business Standard. March 8, 2024. Retrieved March 8, 2024. Since 2021, India has seen a steady growth rate of 13 per cent in content related to women on Wikimedia projects because of the efforts of individual contributors as well as collective initiatives.
• Alikhan, Anusha (March 8, 2024). "Wikipedia needs more women. And India can help bridge this gender gap". ThePrint. Retrieved March 8, 2024. As women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge, the issue is further reflected on Wikipedia, where women remain significantly underrepresented.
• Agbonkhese, Josephine (March 8, 2024). "IWD: Wikimedia Foundation launches 'Wikipedia Needs More Women' campaign". Vanguard (Nigeria). Retrieved March 10, 2024. "We, therefore, urge everyone to join us and play their parts in ensuring that we begin to see more women in the world's largest encyclopedia," added Olushola Olaniyan, President, Wikimedia Nigeria User Group.
• Thomas-Odia, Ijeoma (March 8, 2024). "IWD: Wikimedia Foundation seeks to improve gender equity on Wikipedia". The Guardian (Nigeria). Retrieved March 10, 2024. Wikipedia depends on the availability of existing published sources to verify the facts in its articles. But in many places around the world, women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge.
• "The Guardian view on Wikipedia's female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history". The Guardian. March 8, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024. The dictionary definition of heroism does not usually extend to people who work away anonymously, and for no money, for the reputational benefit of others. But this is what growing numbers of largely female researchers have been doing, in an attempt to rebalance the historical record on Wikipedia in favour of women.
• Owino, Winfrey (March 10, 2024). "Wikipedia launches campaign for female inclusivity across Africa". The Standard (Kenya). Retrieved March 10, 2024. "It is inspiring to see the progress made across the African continent to improve gender equity on Wikipedia and beyond," said Masana Mulaudzi, Senior Manager of Campaign Organizing at the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Tual, Morgane (March 12, 2024). "Wikipedia's French-speaking community is torn apart over 'deadnaming' trans people". Le Monde. Retrieved March 15, 2024. The source of the conflict lies in a debate over the "deadnames" – or morinoms in French – of trans people. Should these names that are no longer in use, such as birthnames, be mentioned on Wikipedia? If so, in which cases and under what conditions?
• Saeed, Aazma (March 13, 2024). "Wikipedia Editors Navigate Political Divides In Covering Pakistan's General Elections". The Friday Times. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Who is the party leader? This was one of the most confusing questions to answer for contributors to Wikipedia's page.
• Adeeso, Adejumoke (March 14, 2024). "Efforts To Improve Gender Equity On Wikipedia Commended". Leadership. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Wikimedia Nigeria is organising the WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge, which is open to the public, to create new articles for notable women and improve existing articles about women on Wikipedia, with a focus on English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Tyap Wikipedias.
• Costigan, Steffanie (March 14, 2024). "Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' aims to correct Blackfoot misrepresentation". Lethbridge Herald. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Romany Craig, professional librarian at the university, shared how she got the idea to hold this workshop by reading about the Wikipedia edit-a-thon which involved individuals coming together to edit around a theme making information more accurate.
• Jansen, Francois (March 14, 2024). "Wikipedia says it needs 'more women' on its website". The South African. Retrieved March 16, 2024. All it takes is a free account. You can also contribute anonymously. Write about anything, including important women of Southern Africa and their world contributions.
• Aharoni Lir, Shlomit (March 14, 2024). "The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia" (PDF). World Jewish Congress. Retrieved March 19, 2024. The articles biased against Israel are mostly closed to editing, and it is impossible for an individual to change them without having made 500 edits, which leaves many Israelis unable to edit articles about which they have great knowledge.
• "Wikipedia English has anti-Israel bias after October 7, World Jewish Congress report says". The Jerusalem Post. March 20, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024. The WJC report recommended corrective measures to re-establish the neutrality of Wikipedia, authored by Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir, Ph.D., senior fellow researcher at Bar Ilan University and the University of Haifa.
• Swindle, David (March 20, 2024). "WJC publishes research revealing the roots of Wikipedia's anti-Israel bias". Jewish News Syndicate. Retrieved March 21, 2024. Types of bias the report identifies include delegitimizing terminology, lack of context, omission of significant details, one-sided sources, emphasizing negative examples and linking to pages like "genocide."
• Mendelle, Hava (March 23, 2024). "The World Jewish Congress investigates Wikipedia". Spectator Australia. Retrieved March 23, 2024. The report claims that English Wikipedia has an anti-Israel bias that spreads disinformation and perpetuates negative stereotypes of Jews and Israelis.
• Lee, Lloyd (March 24, 2024). "For $60, you could 'poison' the data AI chatbots rely on to give good answers, researchers say". Business Insider. Retrieved March 25, 2024. "By the internet's standards, it's a very high-quality source of text and sources of facts about the world," he said, adding that it's the reason researchers give "extra weight" to data from Wikipedia when training language models even though the website makes up a small part of the internet.
• Kamila, Raviprasad (March 29, 2024). "Tulu Wikipedia more than doubles in size in seven years". The Hindu. Retrieved March 29, 2024. "Recently a Tulu article of mine related to Karnataka coastal belt's Siri Aradhane (Siri cult of worship) went to English from where it travelled to the German language," Badikana pointed out. He has written 113 articles for both Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia from December 1, 2023 alone in addition to a number of articles written earlier.

April

• Shanks, Adam (April 4, 2024). "Wikipedia is San Francisco's newest political battlefield". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved April 4, 2024. Wikipedia catalogs the edits made to every page. Supervisors running for election, including Connie Chan, Preston and Aaron Peskin — who is contemplating a run for mayor — have seen an uptick in the number and scale of edits made to their pages in recent months.
• "Wikipedia Needs More Women: Bridging The Gender Gap In Knowledge Representation". Africa.com. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2024. Wikimedia communities in Africa, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, are some of the fastest-growing around the world. Although people living in Africa remain underrepresented among Wikimedia contributors, a 2020 report found that new contributors to Wikimedia projects are three times more likely to come from Africa than other regions.
• Harris, Airika (April 8, 2024). "Study: Without teacher guidance, Estonian students place blind faith in Wikipedia". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. Retrieved April 9, 2024. "We learned that a lot depends on the teacher. If teachers trust Wikipedia and tell students about its dangers and shortcomings, it reflects in the students' activities," Remmik pointed out.
• Torborg, Hailey (April 9, 2024). "ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia". Arizona State University. Retrieved April 15, 2024. "If you know how to navigate the site, Wikipedia is a uniquely transparent knowledge-sharing platform," Perkins said. "So students get to see how the articles are developed in ways that are typically black-boxed in academia's peer-review process or in what happens in the office of news media organizations.
• Borisenko, Lyubov (April 11, 2024). "Party line editing". Novaya Gazeta. Retrieved April 15, 2024. Most often, the Ruwiki pages are substantially shorter than their Wikipedia counterparts; the sexual and plagiarism scandals of Russian representatives, for instance, are often excised.
• Vasilj, Julia (April 14, 2024). "Georgetown hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon, harnessing anger into action". The Georgetown Voice. Retrieved April 15, 2024. By the end of the event, the MDI ultimately championed feminist rage as a tool for activism and achieved its goal of closing gender gaps by recruiting 25 new Wikipedia editors.
• "Russian Billionaires Try to Hide Ties with Kremlin by Editing Wikipedia Pages". Kyiv Post. April 15, 2024. Retrieved April 15, 2024. The article quotes an expert on Wikipedia who says some of them may have never wanted an entry to be made but someone did and now they have to try to get control of the message.
• Benjakob, Omer (April 21, 2024). "Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request". Haaretz. Retrieved April 21, 2024. But as is the case in Israeli politics, nothing is that simple in Wikipedia's politics, certainly not in Hebrew Wikipedia when it comes to Netanyahu.
• Thum, Van (April 21, 2024). "Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon honors Black artists". Pipe Dream. Retrieved April 22, 2024. Multiple on-campus organizations and undergraduate students put their heads together to expand accessible knowledge on Wikipedia of six underrepresented Black artists last Friday.
• Mendelle, Hava (April 22, 2024). "JK Rowling puts Wikipedia's neutrality to the test". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved April 22, 2024. Much of the free information available on Wikipedia has succumbed to such sensationalist news and recentism. More and more editors take on particular causes that they proudly display on their user pages using current events and sources to promote that cause.
• Orlowski, Andrew (April 22, 2024). "How Wikipedia became Wokepedia". Spiked. Retrieved April 23, 2024. Although Wikipedia may have gone woke, it is probably not in the pocket of intelligence agencies. Still, it would be naive to imagine that the bosses at the Wikimedia Foundation aren't at least trying to use Wikipedia as a tool to propagate their social-justice agenda.
• Lapenkova, Maria (April 29, 2024). "Ryssland förbereder nedstängning av Wikipedia – så ser den ryska kopian ut" [Russia prepares to shut down Wikipedia - this is what the Russian copy looks like]. Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved April 30, 2024. Last week, the Minister of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev, said that Russia does not yet intend to block Wikipedia. But that the calls for a shutdown have increased, while a lot of investment is being made in the Russian copy. - Ruwiki filters Wikipedia articles from lies. It is important that we create our own resources where our citizens can obtain objective information cleaned of propaganda, says Gorelkin on Telegram.

See also

• WP:Wikipedia in blogs
• WP:Wikipedia on TV and radio
• WP:Press coverage of health information