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For 20 years, a loosely organized group of Wikipedia editors toiled away curating a collection of 15,000 articles on a single subject: the roads and highways of the United States. Despite minor disagreements, the US Roads Project mostly worked in harmony, but recently, a long-simmering debate over the website’s rules drove this community to the brink. Efforts at compromise fell apart. There was a schism, and in the fall of 2023, the editors packed up their articles and moved over to a website dedicated to roads and roads…

Wikipedia has gone through some dramatic and some other subtle changes over the years, but the default Vector wiki format hasn’t seen an update in over a decade.Gif: Wikimedia FoundationOn Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation finally showed off the changes it made to the desktop version of its open online encyclopedia, an update that’s been over a decade coming and close three years in development.And—well… it’s certainly an update, of sorts. At first glance most folk would struggle to see any real changes to the old…

Photo: NOAH BERGER/AFP (Getty Images)Students trying to complete last minute term papers may feel a little bit better trawling through Wikipedia for their midnight “research.” Meta announced a new artificial intelligence model that researchers claim can help make Wikipedia entries more accurate.As first reported by TechCrunch, Meta’s new open source AI may be how the company—notablyknown for its issues with content moderation—better finds and snuffs out fake news or disinformation. The company’s AI team released a blog…