Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Top News

Scientology, critics banned from editing Wikipedia

Jun. 5, 2009
Popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has banned Scientology's more vocal friends and foes from editing articles about the religion, a move that worries some in the Internet community. Wikipedia has blocked contributions from computers at the Church of...
Related Stories from UPI.com

Wikipedia blamed for test score drop

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 21 (UPI) -- The Scottish Parent Teacher Council blames students' reliance on Wikipedia and similar online sources for a drop in examination scores.

Britannica to allow entries from public

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16 (UPI) -- Encyclopedia Britannica is planning to allow the public to contribute to its scholarly Internet entries in an effort to broaden content, a spokesman said.

Wikipedia struggles with funding

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 12 (UPI) -- Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, appears to be at another crossroads -- this time over financing.

Report: BBC staff edited Wikipedia

LONDON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- BBC staff allegedly made more than 7,000 edits to Wikipedia entries they viewed as unfavorable, it was reported Sunday.

Wikipedia being used as public image site

LONDON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Officials connected to the CIA and Britain's Labor Party have altered Wikipedia entries in an attempt to enhance those groups' public image, a report shows.

Vt. college bans Wikipedia as a source

MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- but it lets anyone with enough knownledge to go online to edit or

Wikipedia protects some entries from edits

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 17 (UPI) -- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is no longer as freewheeling as it once was, protecting some subjects from sometimes contentious editing.

China's Wikipedia copycat 'self-censored'

BEIJING, May 12 (UPI) -- China's top Internet search company has launched an online encyclopedia modeled on Wikipedia, but self-censored to avoid offending the Chinese government.

Fake Wikipedia biography unraveled

NASHVILLE, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Nashville, Tenn., man has admitted to planting fake and embarrassing information on the Internet Wikipedia encyclopedia about a newspaper publisher. Brian Chase said he created the bogus online biography of John Seigenthaler in May to play a trick on a

Wikipedia shoring up entries after furor

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is changing its ways amid claims it had become a breeding ground for "false and malicious" information.
1 of 29
Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler