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2024
(19 January 2024). “Yes, Copying from Wikipedia is Plagiarism.” Slate Magazine
2023
(13 February 2023). “Why Wikipedia is So Tough on Bigfoot.” Slate Magazine.
(12 January 2023). “Should ChatGPT be Used To Write Wikipedia Articles?” Slate Magazine.
(24 August 2023). “Wikipedia Will Survive A.I.” Slate Magazine
(26 September 2023). “The Wikipedia Fanatics Racing to Get From ‘Stroopwafel’ to ‘Jimmy Wales’ in Just a Few Clicks.” Slate Magazine
(26 October 2023). “Wikipedia is Covering the War in Israel and Gaza Better than X.” Slate Magazine
(8 December 2023). “Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp.” Slate Magazine
2022
(21 November 2022). “No, Wikipedia is Not Colluding with DHS.” Slate Magazine.
(20 October 2022). “How Quantum Theories Took Over TikTok.” Slate Magazine.
(17 August 2022). “How Wikipedia Can Influence Judges’ Legal Writing.” Slate Magazine.
(7 July 2022). "It Looks Like the Highland Park Shooter Tried Repeatedly to Create His Own Wikipedia Page". Slate Magazine.
(16 June 2022). "Inside Wikipedia's Historic, Fiercely Contested "Election"". Slate Magazine.
(3 May 2022). "The Controversy Brewing on Elon Musk's Wikipedia Page". Slate Magazine.
(14 March 2022). “On TikTok, Philosophy is Getting Edgy… or at Least Concise.” Slate Magazine.
(1 March 2022). "How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia". Slate Magazine.
(24 January 2022). “Has Godwin’s Law, the Rule of Nazi Comparisons, Been Disproved?” Slate Magazine.
2021
(9 December 2021). "The Uproar Over Jimmy Wales' Decision to Auction the "Birth of Wikipedia" as an NFT". Slate Magazine.
(26 October 2021). "Why Wikipedia Banned Several Chinese Admins". Slate Magazine.
(8 September 2021). "How Wikipedia Grew Up With the War on Terror". Slate Magazine.
(1 September 2021). "Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language". Slate Magazine.
(26 July 2021). "How to Use Wikipedia When You're Watching the Olympics". Slate Magazine.
(1 July 2021). "Wikipedia's War on the Daily Mail". Slate Magazine.
(June 9, 2021). "How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice". Slate Magazine.
(2 March 2021). "The Tensions Behind Wikipedia's New Code of Conduct". Slate Magazine.
(14 January 2021). "Wikipedia is twenty. It's time to start covering it better". Columbia Journalism Review.
2020
January 29, 2020
But what worked there may not help in other countries that censor the encyclopedia, like Venezuela.
March 19, 2020
How does the internet’s encyclopedia stay accurate with news and knowledge changing by the hour?
May 27, 2020
The deletions, the editor fights—all of it will be important to researchers studying this period.
June 9, 2020
Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia’s commitment to neutrality actually means.
September 9, 2020
An American teenager who doesn’t speak Scots wrote many of the encyclopedia’s entries. Now Wikipedians are figuring out what to do.
October 9, 2020
The most-trafficked English Wikipedia page for a deceased celebrity in 2020 was not that of the “Notorious RBG,” but rather an Indian movie star who was relatively unknown outside his own country.
October 27, 2020
It points to a deeper problem on the internet encyclopedia.
December 4, 2020
A big part of verification 2.0 is relying on Wikipedia.
2019
January 28, 2019
The reason is six degrees from Kevin Bacon.
February 15, 2019
An alarmingly deep dive into the shallow Daily Quotes skill from the Amazon Echo.
March 7, 2019
Circular reporting is a real problem on platforms like Wikipedia—and it’s harder to solve than it looks.
March 26, 2019
The Wikipedia rule that makes it harder to create entries about lesser-known but important women from history.
April 15, 2019
Sometimes you have a moral obligation to review a business on Yelp or Google Reviews. Do it for the greater good.
April 16, 2019
Members of the Wikipedia community rapidly mobilized to rescue black hole scientist Katie Bouman’s page from deletion.
May 9, 2019
The false use of the prefix has hurt the Wikipedia brand.
May 21, 2019
The Chinese government has long been suspicious of Wikipedia. It’s been blocked in China intermittently since 2004, and the Chinese-language version has been blocked since June 2015. Now the government has gone even further.
June 6, 2019
Yelp compares itself to Wikipedia. But there’s a major difference.
June 14, 2019
A recent incident created a rather brain-melting debate.
July 2, 2019
The banning of a single editor is roiling Wikipedia.
August 7, 2019
Welsh and other smaller language movements on Wikimedia projects suggest there may be ways to train technology to allow for cultural differences.
