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    editor posted a hoax article onto Wikipedia about journalist John Seigenthaler. The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations...
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    After the incident, Seigenthaler described Wikipedia as "a flawed and irresponsible research tool". The incident led to policy changes at Wikipedia for tightening...
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    interest, paid Wikipedia editing and hostile interactions between Wikipedia editors and public figures. The Seigenthaler biography incident led to media...
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  • Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident, a hoax about the above John Seigenthaler (anchorman) (born 1955), an American news anchorman Joseph Seigenthaler (born...
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    July 28, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2011. Seigenthaler, John (November 29, 2005). "A false Wikipedia "biography"". USA Today. Archived from the original...
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    warnings/Usage and layout § Levels This is now known as the Seigenthaler incident. "Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info". Christian Science...
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    mainstream media involved biographies of living people. The Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident demonstrated that the subject of a biographical article...
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    growing demand. China again blocked Wikipedia in October 2005. The first major Wikipedia scandal, the Seigenthaler incident, occurred in 2005 when a well-known...
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    John Lawrence Seigenthaler (/ˈsiːɡənθɔːlər/ SEE-gən-thaw-lər; July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure....
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  • as the Essjay controversy and the Seigenthaler incident. Lih describes the importance of early influences on Wikipedia including Usenet, HyperCard, Slashdot...
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    Wikipedia for World Heritage refers to the efforts put forth to get Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The idea was originally proposed...
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  • empirical studies, confirmed by incidents including Seigenthaler biography controversy, point to the conclusion that Wikipedia is not generally reliable. Hence...
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    The Wikipedia Monument (Polish: Pomnik Wikipedii), located in Słubice, Poland, is a statue designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan honoring Wikipedia...
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    Gender bias on Wikipedia is a term used to describe various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both...
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    yearly WikiConference North America. The Seigenthaler and Essjay incidents caused criticism of Wikipedia's reliability and usefulness as a reference...
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    the MH17 jet incident in July 2014 when it was reported edits were made via IPs controlled by the Russian government. Bots on Wikipedia must be approved...
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  • investigation and was Wikipedia's biggest conflict-of-interest scandal as of June 2021, exceeding the scope of the Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia incident in which approximately...
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    December 2005 with no changes made to the game. In May, the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident began. In October, the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit...
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  • articles, though cleanup continued a month later. The incident renewed doubt about Wikipedia's reputation for reliability. Between 2012 and 2022, a user...
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  • "[citation needed]" is a tag added by Wikipedia editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added. The phrase is reflective...
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    which a reader travels by navigating from topic to topic while browsing Wikipedia and other wikis. The metaphor of a rabbit hole comes from Lewis Carroll's...
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    2005 Seigenthaler incident after replacing a vandalized English Wikipedia biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. with a copyrighted official biography. After...
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    and was officially launched in 2015, as a fork of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia) joined the company in 2017. In 2022, Everipedia was...
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    WikiReader (category Wikipedia)
    WikiReader was a project to deliver an offline, text-only version of Wikipedia on a mobile device. The project was sponsored by Openmoko and made by Pandigital...
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  • into the Wikipedia entry for journalist John Seigenthaler. Musician KRS-One comments about the site after reading his biography on Wikipedia: "I can say...
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  • WikiNodes (category Wikipedia)
    view – displays Wikipedia articles in long form, similar to how they appear on the main Wikipedia web site. Node view – divides Wikipedia articles into...
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    Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia. The Enciclopedia Libre was founded by contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia who decided to start an independent...
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  • Robert McHenry (category Critics of Wikipedia)
    article about Wikipedia, following the Seigenthaler incident, McHenry restated his earlier objections, and added a criticism that the Wikipedia organisation...
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  • Michael (2010). "Interpedia". Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp. 32–34. ISBN 978-0-262-01447-2...
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    Robert F. Kennedy (category Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages)
    bombing to protect the Riders in continuing their journey, sending John Seigenthaler, his administrative assistant, to Alabama to try to calm the situation...
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