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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Wikipedia

Screen capture of the Wikipedia page about the Anti-Defamation League, June 26, 2024. (Wikipedia; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 26, 2024, 9:27 am
Wikipedia rebuffs Jewish groups’ call to override editors’ move against ADL
Charitable foundation that operates website says those who requested reversing downgrade of Ant-Defamation League’s reliability don’t understand how online encyclopedia works
By JTA
The "Wikipedia" logo is seen on a tablet screen in Paris on December 4, 2012. (AFP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure)
June 19, 2024, 6:40 am
Wikipedia moves to bar ADL, claiming reliability concerns on Israel and antisemitim
Editor who initiated deliberation that ultimately led to ban on using the Jewish group as a source accuses it of ‘shameless politicization,’ while only a small minority defend it
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Wikipedia page about the Holocaust in Poland. (JTA illustration)
May 23, 2023, 3:10 am
Wikipedia bans editors but sidesteps broader action in Holocaust distortion row
Online encyclopedia bars 3 editors from working on articles related to Holocaust in Poland, but avoids stance on underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An academic paper found that a dedicated group has for some 15 years manipulated Wikipedia in ways that lay blame for the Holocaust on Jews and absolve Poland of almost any responsibility for its record of antisemitism. (JTA illustration)
March 2, 2023, 6:56 pm
Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust articles
For the first time in its nearly 20 years, the online encyclopedia’s arbitration committee voluntarily takes up a case amid claims some editors are whitewashing Polish history
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A computer screen displays a notice blocking the Wikipedia website through an online news site in Islamabad, Pakistan, Feb. 6, 2023 (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
February 7, 2023, 11:11 am
Wikipedia back online in Pakistan after block over ‘blasphemous content’
No comment from Wikimedia Foundation as to whether it removed any material, but it previously said it doesn’t make decisions about what is posted
By AFP
In this Wednesday, January 18, 2012 file photo, a blackout landing page is displayed on a laptop computer screen inside the 'Anti-Sopa War Room' at the offices of the Wikipedia Foundation in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
January 6, 2023, 12:13 pm
Wikimedia disputes activist claims of Saudi ‘infiltration’
Two groups had alleged that the philanthropy, which runs Wikipedia, had found that Riyadh officials infiltrated ‘the highest ranks’ of its team in the region
By AFP
In this Wednesday, January 18, 2012 file photo, a blackout landing page is displayed on a laptop computer screen inside the 'Anti-Sopa War Room' at the offices of the Wikipedia Foundation in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
January 5, 2023, 10:46 pm
Activists say Saudi government ‘infiltrated’ Wikipedia, jailed two admins
Rights groups claim 2 high-ranking volunteers arrested in 2020 were sentenced to prison by kingdom, which undertook ‘coordinated’ PR campaign on platform
By AFP
Author Isaac Bashevis Singer poses for a portrait outside the S. Rabinowitz Hebrew Book Store on New York's Lower East Side in 1968. (David Attie/Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
June 9, 2021, 10:25 pm
How Wikipedia warriors made ‘Polish writer’ Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish again
It takes a global village to unerase the great Yiddish-language writer’s religious/ethnic identity on the ‘democratized’ online encyclopedia
By Asaf Shalev
Wikipedia logo alongside the logo for Percepto (Composite image by Times of Israel)
November 1, 2020, 5:08 am
Wikipedia probe exposes an Israeli stealth PR firm that worked for scammers
Shining rare spotlight on murky business of online reputation management, Wikipedia editor points finger at Percepto – an Israeli firm that helps wealthy clients bury dubious pasts
By Simona Weinglass
Screen capture of the homepage from the online encyclopedia website, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia)
January 15, 2020, 8:26 pm
Turkey lifts 2017 ban on Wikipedia
Country was the only one in world apart from China to entirely block access to online encyclopedia
By AFP
Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a statement to the press, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2019, 11:16 am
Justice minister rant on ‘biased’ prosecution seems partly taken from Wikipedia
In citing example of 2003 AG probe into leaked information from police investigation, Amir Ohana’s speech appears to repeat online encyclopedia almost verbatim
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: German soldiers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland, September 1939. (AP Photo)
October 5, 2019, 8:13 am
Wikipedia page on Warsaw death camp where 200,000 were killed was 15-year fake
Haaretz shows online encyclopedia since 2004 hosted false entry on Nazi camp complete with gas chambers where Poles were murdered; untrue claims made way onto other Wikipedia pages
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)
September 8, 2019, 8:26 am
Parts of Wikipedia offline after ‘malicious’ attack
Wikimedia Foundation says assault that shut down its servers by swamping them with false demands threatened ‘fundamental rights to freely access and share information’
By AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
November 9, 2018, 11:50 am
82 or 83? The curious confusion over Mahmoud Abbas’s age
According to some sources, the Palestinian Authority president’s birthday is next week; others say it was in March
By Adam Rasgon
Banc De Binary CEO Oren Laurent in an interview posted on YouTube in August 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
May 29, 2017, 6:20 am
Wikipedia vs. Banc De Binary: A 3-year battle against binary options ‘fake news’
Binary options fraudsters employ experts to outwit Google, create laudatory news sites, engage on social media — anything to encourage new victims and keep the truth from coming out. One key battlefield: The online encyclopedia
By Simona Weinglass
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