“Filling in the gaps”: Plants and people meet on Wikipedia
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the New York Botanical Garden focused on writing women botanists into history.
Trump, Prince, and Queen Elizabeth: 2016’s most-read Wikipedia articles
The English Wikipedia's list is led by the United States president-elect, who topped all other articles with nearly three times more views than last year's #1. But the second-screen effect powered Britain's queen, Pablo Escobar, and O. J. Simpson to surprisingly high places.
Our top posts of 2016: Wikimedia community takes center stage
Community-focused pieces fill our list of most-read and best posts from the last year.
Death, politics, and Vincent van Gogh: 2016 as seen through the lens of Wikipedia
Which English Wikipedia articles were edited most in 2016? Find out what captured editors' interests.
Wait, what? Tarrare, the man with an insatiable appetite
Meals for fifteen, a live cat, snakes, lizards, puppies, and an entire eel—none were off limits.
Pick and choose and Pikachu: 20 years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains
Years ago, the English Wikipedia was being overrun by a deluge of articles on Pokémon characters and creatures.
Wikipedia statistics show that 2015 was the year of the movie
2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.
Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015
Death, pop culture, current events ... and one person writing about the Juneau Icefield.
A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes on Wikipedia
After John Oliver called on the Internet to vandalize the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, Wikipedia's volunteer editors cleaned up the vandalism.
Top 10 Most Edited Pages on Wikipedia in 2014
Wikipedia is the world’s largest free knowledge resource, but what makes it so unique is its dynamism–it is a living, breathing knowledge network that changes all the time, thanks to hundreds of thousands of editors around the world who keep it growing and current. ... Here are the top 10 most edited pages on English-language Wikipedia in 2014. Many of the topics are to be expected, like Deaths in 2014 or the Israel-Gaza Conflict. (...)