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| 2025 | Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Associate Professor at Universitat de Barcelona, characterized gender bias on Wikipedia as 'systemic' and proposed multiple strategies to address the long-standing issue, including increasing female editors, improving diversity, and creating a more welcoming editorial environment. |
| 2025 | An investigation by Radar uncovered potential political bias in Serbian Wikipedia's coverage of anti-corruption protests, noting the use of pro-government narrative framing and language that characterized protests as 'an attempt at a colour revolution'. |
| 2025 | Ongoing investigations raised concerns about bias in articles related to current political events in Serbia. |
| April 2025 | The Free Press reported that the interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia was concerned about Wikipedia edits targeting Israel in the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| April 2025 | Delhi High Court directed Wikipedia to remove allegedly defamatory statements about news agency Asian News International (ANI), citing obligations under the Information Technology Act. |
| March 2025 | In response to the Heritage Foundation's plans, the Wikipedia community added the organization's website to the spam blacklist. |
| 2025 | The Heritage Foundation planned to expose Wikipedia editors who added text deemed antisemitic by sending a pitch deck to Jewish organizations. |
| March 20 2025 | The Wikipedia community voted to place a 12-month moratorium on editing a controversial sentence in the Zionism article, prohibiting changes to a contentious description about Zionists' historical intentions. |
| March 20 2025 | The Wikipedia community voted to place a 12-month moratorium on editing a controversial sentence in the Zionism article, prohibiting any changes to the text. |
| March 20 2025 | Wikipedia community voted to place a 12-month moratorium on editing a controversial sentence in the Zionism article, prohibiting any changes until February 21, 2026. |
| March 20 2025 | Jewish Journal reported that Wikipedia community voted to place a 12-month moratorium on editing a controversial sentence in the Zionism article's lead. |
| 2025 | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a report finding evidence of biased and extremist content on Arabic Wikipedia, particularly in the Hamas article. |
| 2025 | The Arbitration Committee banned at least 14 fake users for manipulation and deception on articles related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. |
| 2025 | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) identified a multi-year campaign by editors attempting to revise Wikipedia's content on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| February 2025 | Stephen Harrison emphasizes the contentious nature of Wikipedia's handling of topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, noting that many Wikipedians deliberately avoid editing certain sensitive pages. |
| February 2025 | Larry Sanger called on the Department of Government Efficiency to reveal any Wikipedia paid editing supported by United States government agencies, following Elon Musk's criticism of Wikipedia as being 'captured by leftist politics'. |
| January 2025 | The Arbitration Committee topic-banned six pro-Palestine and two pro-Israel editors from editing articles related to the conflict. |
| January 5 2025 | A Zoom meeting featuring Aaron Bandler was uploaded, discussing Wikipedia's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| January 2 2025 | The Spanish Wikipedia reaches 2,000,000 articles. |
| January 1 2025 | Estonian Wikipedia reached 250,000 articles milestone |
| 2024 | Tulu Wikipedia doubles in size, growing to more than 2,100 articles, and is noted by The Hindu as lacking institutional support. |
| 2024 | Wikimedia Research Fund funds a one-year project called 'Cover Women' to analyse the representation of women and marginalised groups on Wikipedia's main page. |
| 2024 | A study by Khandaker Tasnim Huq and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia demonstrated that deletion nominations for women's biographies occur 34% faster than for men's biographies on English Wikipedia. |
| 2024 | A caching data center was opened in São Paulo, Brazil, which was the first of its kind in South America. |
| 2024 | A study comparing Chinese Baidu Baike and English Wikipedia on irritable bowel syndrome found Wikipedia provides more reliable, higher quality, and more objective information, though both were still lacking in quality. |
| 2024 | A quantitative content analysis determined that popular Wikipedia health-related articles for both sexes had comparable quality, highlighting the platform's balanced health information. |
| 2024 | The weekly magazine Vreme reported on bias in Serbian Wikipedia, highlighting content that reflects Serbian nationalism and historical revisionism, particularly in articles about the Yugoslav Wars. |
| 2024 | Stephen Harrison publishes the novel 'The Editors', which features a fictional online encyclopedia called Infopendium, inspired by Wikipedia. |
| 2024 | Vira Motorko was named Wikimedian of the Year in the category Functionary of the Year for Ukrainian Wikipedia. |
| 2024 | Hannah Clover was named Wikimedian of the Year, recognizing her significant contributions to the Wikipedia community as a Canadian administrator. |
| 2024 | Historian Shira Klein compared the coverage of the Gaza war on English and Hebrew Wikipedia, noting potential distortions. |
| 2024 | Research discovered coordinated accounts promoting Russian propaganda narratives and state-controlled media sources in articles related to Russian-Ukrainian relations and Russia's war with Ukraine. |
| December 2024 | Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales commented on the challenges of maintaining neutral pages about Israel-Palestine, noting increased sensitivity around discussions of the conflict. |
| December 2024 | A Wikipedia arbitration committee banned two pro-Palestine editors indefinitely and restricted three others for 'canvassing' and disruptive editing. |
| October 2024 | Wikipedia faced criticism for publishing alleged images of Liam Payne's trashed hotel room after his death and listing him as a 'past member' of One Direction, which fans found insensitive. |
| October 2024 | Ashley Rindsberg of Pirate Wires reports a coordinated operation by Wikipedia editors systematically altering articles to influence public opinion against Israel. |
| September 2024 | A consensus emerged to merge the title of the Nuseirat military raid article to 'Nuseirat rescue and massacre', resolving an edit war over the characterization of the event. |
| September 2024 | A group called 'Tech for Palestine' was reported to be coordinating Wikipedia editing efforts to shape narratives about the conflict. |
| September 2024 | Edit war on Japanese and English Wikipedia pages about Yasuke erupted following the announcement of the character in Assassin's Creed Shadows, with conflict over his samurai status leading to page protection. |
| September 2024 | Lululemon Athletica ended its association with ultramarathon runner Camille Herron after allegations of manipulating her Wikipedia page by removing information about other athletes. |
| September 2024 | Israel Hayom highlights the potential impact of Wikipedia entries on public understanding of historical events and geopolitical debates. |
| September 18 2024 | Russian Wikipedia reached the significant milestone of 2,000,000 articles. |
| August 2024 | Ynetnews reports Wikipedia has become a 'battleground for information warfare' with power struggles between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli editors. |
| August 2 2024 | Indonesian Wikipedia reached 700,000 articles milestone |
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