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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Despite questions swirling around the verity of the online encyclopedia’s content, its open-edit model ensures checks are built in.
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, has found itself in the crosshairs of the Indian judiciary. As it fights a defamation case filed against it by news agency ANI, questions have been raised about how its open-edit model affects the quality of the content on the free online resource.
To be precise, the question was raised by Justice Subramonium Prasad, who, according to CNBC-TV 18, said last month, “Anybody can edit a page on Wikipedia? What kind of page is this if it is open to anybody?”
This question by the Delhi High Court judge came …
The Supreme Court set aside a Delhi High Court ruling that asked Wikipedia to remove an article about court proceedings in a case filed by ANI.
From mismanagement and bickering to funds misuse and unequal representation, here’s how things ended for a once-promising collective in the open knowledge movement
