#Wikipedia needs you

“Everything about Wikipedia is a worship of expertise,” aid its co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with Nature.

That’s the part of the approach that makes it so valuable — and one of the reasons why researchers should take the time to get involved.

As the web gets ever more polarized and swamped with untrustworthy content, "editors who are fair and civil, and who know how to weigh up evidence, are sorely needed.”

nature.com/articles/d41586-026…

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

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