Hackernews posts about Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that provides access to millions of articles on various topics, written and edited by volunteers worldwide.

1. Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney (www.washingtonpost.com)
   923 points by coloneltcb 13 days ago | 906 comments
2. Wikipedia: Database Download (en.wikipedia.org)
   203 points by doener 12 days ago | 99 comments
3. Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers (wikimediafoundation.org)
   79 points by thm 9 days ago | 41 comments
4. Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status over Alleged 'Propaganda' (gizmodo.com)
   44 points by nickcotter 12 days ago | 34 comments
5. Wikidive – AI guided rabbitholes in Wikipedia (wikidive.tulv.in)
   32 points by atulvi 4 days ago | 14 comments
6. Wikipedia's LTA (Long Term Abuse) List (en.wikipedia.org)
   30 points by simonebrunozzi 10 days ago | 2 comments
7. D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia's Tax-Exempt Status (www.thefp.com)
   14 points by coloneltcb 13 days ago | 4 comments
8. The entire 1941 Japanese film Kanzashi can be watched on its Wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org)
   13 points by trompetenaccoun 7 days ago | 1 comments
9. Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop scraping (siliconangle.com)
   13 points by giuliomagnifico 22 days ago | 1 comments
10. The SEP has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of (2015) (qz.com)
    13 points by Tomte 8 days ago | discuss
11. Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits (wikipediocracy.com)
    10 points by mostcallmeyt 25 days ago | discuss
12. India to Consider Blocking Wikipedia (www.hindustantimes.com)
    9 points by argilla 25 days ago | discuss
13. Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules (www.bbc.co.uk)
    6 points by todsacerdoti about 12 hours ago | 1 comments
14. Show HN: Path to Philosophy – Find how any Wikipedia page leads to Philosophy (pathtophilosophy.com)
    5 points by nishanth_v 7 days ago | 2 comments
15. Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers (www.theverge.com)
    5 points by ambigious7777 22 days ago | 1 comments
16. Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to 'manipulation and vandalism' (www.theguardian.com)
    5 points by chrisjj about 23 hours ago | discuss
17. Ask HN: Does acceptance of Wikipedia as reliable source foreshadow same for AI?
    4 points by bookofjoe 26 days ago | 11 comments
18. Building a Wikipedia MCP Server (dida.do)
    4 points by mduett 11 days ago | 1 comments
19. Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial [pdf] (ide.mit.edu)
    4 points by joebig about 15 hours ago | discuss
20. Wikipedia's Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act Regs (medium.com)
    3 points by ColinWright about 22 hours ago | 1 comments
21. Wikipedia: Database Reports/Birthday Today (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points by amadeuspagel 6 days ago | discuss
22. Wikipedia: Vital articles/Level/5/Technology (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points by teroshan 14 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: Looset Graph – OSS concept map tool (ClojureScript, Wikipedia demo) (jponline.github.io)
    2 points by smokeonline 16 days ago | 2 comments
24. Valery Sablin – Mutiny on the Storozhevoy (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points by sans_souse 21 days ago | 1 comments
25. Wikipedia Kaggle Dataset Using Structured Contents Snapshot (enterprise.wikimedia.com)
    2 points by thm 22 days ago | 1 comments
26. Show HN: I made a tool to download all of Wikipedia on a weekly basis (github.com)
    2 points by ternera 9 days ago | discuss
27. Six Degrees of Wikipedia (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)
    2 points by smartmic 20 days ago | discuss
28. Wikipedia's largest non-English version was created by a bot (www.abc.net.au)
    2 points by Brajeshwar 24 days ago | discuss
29. Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now (www.theverge.com)
    1 points by handfuloflight 7 days ago | 4 comments
30. DeepWiki Wikipedia for GitHub Repo: Understand GitHub Repo with AI (deepwiki.org)
    1 points by zoudong376 8 days ago | 1 comments