As society turns to Wikipedia for answers, students, educators, and citizens should understand its limitations when researching scientific topics that are politically charged. On entries subject to edit-wars, like acid rain, evolution, and global change, one can obtain – within seconds – diametrically different information on the same topic.
Étiquette : wikipedia (Page 5 of 5)
Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015
Source : Histography – Timeline of History
After weeks of investigation, volunteer editors on English Wikipedia announced today that they blocked 381 user accounts for “black hat” editing.
Source : Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation « Wikimedia blog
I wondered what 152 edits — from stub page to fleshed out — looked like, so I created this animation of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wikipedia page as it was created