Vice,PC Magazine,American Libraries magazine,The David Pakman Show, and others covered the English Wikipedia community's decision not to allowBreitbart News sourcing. On October 3, Breitbart called themselves "blacklisted" but of course we can't link the article forThe Signpost because... well, the siteis on the blacklist.— B

Steven Pruitt (Ser Amantio di Nicolao) is currentlyWikipedia's top editor, with over 2.7 million edits. He has fairly consistently attracted media coverage, including being named one of the top 25 most influential people on the internet in 2017, byTime. Pruitt was recently flung into the limelight yet again, with a series of prominent newspapers reprinting a piece originating withThe Washington Post.— E

John Enoch,reporting forThe Times (paywall) tells of Jimbo Wales firing the reporters of hisWikiTribune, the place for "news by the people and for the people", after only one year of publication.

Anarticle inTechCrunch reports on the collaboration of volunteers from theInternet Archive succeeding in repairing 9 million broken links. Maximilian Doerr and Stephen Balbach created software tools, including IAbot, to automate correction of 6 million links. Other Wikipedia volunteers fixed 3 million more by manually linking to Internet Archive.

• Vandalism: Marcus Gilmer ofMashablelists a selection of "[t]he most unforgettable Wikipedia vandalism trolls of all time".
• Women: Atwo-day edit-a-thon on theIsle of Skye adds 13 biographies of women. "It was wonderful to see so many new articles created, and people leave with the skills to continue to edit and update Wikipedia entries".
• Sexism: More on the Strickland affair inQuartz – "Sexism at Wikipedia feeds off the sexism in the media", while WMF executive directorKatherine Maher writing in theLos Angeles Times acknowledges that "Wikipedia's shortcomings are absolutely real."
• Movies: Apparently, some people like reading plot spoilers on Wikipedia so that they can avoid being scared by watching horror films, according to Katie McDonough inThe Muse – with an interesting illustration byAngelica Alzona.
• Bias on Wikipeda: John Lubbock writing inNew Statesman America discusses "Wikipedia's resilience to biased editing" and government interference.

• Regarding Jimmy Wales andWikiTribune, he and cofounder Orit Kopelwrote recently that "We are looking to hire new journalists – our old staff was great, but we are now focusing much more on community support, and so we are looking for journalists with extensive wiki experience, and journalists with fact checking passion." It remains to be seen exactly how that will play out, but he clearly hasn't given up on the idea of a mix of paid staff and volunteers for creating content. --John Broughton(♫♫)20:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• It seems the media can't even get rightthe one thing on WP they seem to like reporting about the most. I thought of at least three egregious omissions as soon as I finished reading it. — pythoncoder  (talk |contribs)23:56, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]