Wikipedia

• Is Wikipedia as ‘unreliable’ as you’ve been told? Experts suggest the opposite may be true

  Should you really be skipping Wikipedia on your hunt for sources? Experts chime in.

  Tech

  Jun 10, 2021
  
• Super Awesome Science Show recap: Science in translation

  This week’s Super Awesome Science Show explores how experts are 'translating' technical scientific terms into language everyone can understand.

  Science

  Mar 19, 2019
  
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• Queen’s U hosts Wikipedia workshop to encourage female contributors

  Less than ten per cent of Wikipedia contributors are women — events like these are hoping to change that.

  Tech

  Mar 4, 2018
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• Wikipedia conference comes to Montreal for first time

  The 13th annual Wikipedia conference has come to Montreal for the first time.

  Consumer

  Aug 11, 2017
• Online encyclopedia Wikipedia blocked in Turkey

  Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, citing a law allowing it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security.

  World

  Apr 29, 2017
• Donald Trump ‘homosexual’ Wikipedia edits made from Corrections Canada computer

  Edits to an online page on Donald Trump, referring to him as transgender and homosexual, were made using a computer with an IP address belonging to the Correctional Service of Canada.

  Politics

  Apr 7, 2016
• Student tracks Wikipedia ‘starlight tour’ edits to Saskatoon police

  A B.C. university student from Saskatoon finds out the Saskatoon police edited their own Wikipedia page to filter out a dark part of history.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2016
• U of R students help populate Wikipedia pages with more Saskatchewan female content

  Focusing on Saskatchewan artists and prairie based content, students spent their time creating and editing Wikipedia web pages.

  Canada

  Mar 8, 2016
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• Government computer edits Cadbury Caramilk’s Wikipedia page, says it’s not chocolate

  An apparent candy connoisseur used a computer at the Department of National Defence (DND) to edit Cadbury Caramilk’s Wikipedia page to dispute whether the bar meets “the legal definition of a chocolate.”

  Lifestyle

  Feb 25, 2016
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• George W. Bush has the most edited Wikipedia page of all time

  If there's one website that's become a staple for web user's, it's Wikipedia.

  Tech

  Jan 15, 2016