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#wikipedia

Until this spring, the story of how New York City launched the first "travel training" program for people with disabilities in the 1970s was nowhere to be found on Wikipedia.

Academia traditionally views Wikipedia as unreliable due to its lack of peer-reviewed content, yet its decentralized model could offer valuable insights for knowledge creation.

WikiAsteroids combines classic arcade gameplay with real-time Wikipedia edits, creating a dynamic environment where in-game challenges evolve based on contributions to the online encyclopedia.

Wikipedia's bias against conservative outlets like The Daily Caller and Fox News is evident in its blacklist, which favors leftist narratives, as revealed in a recent Media Research Center report.

"...there's something about fiction—one of the strengths is that you can get inside the characters. You can illustrate their emotions, conflicts, and motivations in ways reporting can't."

"Curiosity actually works by connecting pieces of information, not just acquiring them. We gather information and connect it to what we already know."

The most popular Wikipedia articles are a reflection of our world, highlighting our collective interests at a unique moment in time, said Anusha Alikhan, the chief communications officer at the Wikimedia Foundation.

"Reducing our understanding of knowledge to assertions made by a small subset of supposedly 'reliable sources' adds bias into the encyclopedia."