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Encyclopedia. Wiki is the software it uses, which is that kind of easy to edit, easy to collaborate sort of bear text and images software. Wiki is not the same as wikipedia but they merged the two together, and it began in 2001 as the kind of side project of a more traditional encyclopedia. It took off to get a life of its own and very quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of articles. Host who writes and edits for wikipedia and how do you double check that the information is 100 accurate . Writ...

Plus: Surprising attitudes about gender and credibility on the beat, how Trump drives outsized mainstream media attention to alternative media, and "sifting" as the key mode of next-gen news consumers.

Some conservatives are learning to weaponize the encyclopedia as part of a political battle to delegitimize traditional sources.

The Anti-Defamation League has paused a project in which its staff members edited Wikipedia using pseudonyms after coming under fire from Wikipedia editors for potentially violating rules regarding conflicts of interest. The ADL launched an effort last spring to train some of its employees to contribute to Wikipedia articles but it wasn’t until late last month that the edits made by ADL staff came to the widespread attention of volunteer editors on the website. “I love the ADL … But this ...