Wikipedia
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The Wikipedia community generally requires sensitive information such as a person's death to cite authoritative media or official statements, but entries can still be maliciously altered or briefly contain false information before verification.
Wikipedia does not produce original reporting but only compiles second-hand information, and its updates lag, so it cannot bear the responsibility of fact-checking.
Wikipedia uses an open-editing model in which anyone can modify entries, and its content relies on citations voluntarily provided by editors, so it cannot serve as a primary source for news of a person's death.
The material captured for the article was titled "Patrick Stewart has died", came from an aggregation platform, and its body contained only an archive link and a Wikipedia page, along with a link to a Hacker News comment thread.
Deletion discussion is the most common dispute-resolution method, in which community volunteers express opinions based on policy and source evidence, and an administrator makes the final ruling.
Wikipedia's notability guidelines require that an article's subject receive significant coverage in independent reliable sources, which is an inclusion standard formed by community consensus.
In the notability guidelines, 'independent' means the source cannot be material published by the subject itself, such as personal websites, autobiographies, or press releases.
In the notability guidelines, 'reliable' usually refers to publications with an editorial review mechanism, such as mainstream media, academic journals, and authoritative databases.
Proposed deletion applies to uncontroversial deletions and is carried out if no one objects.
Speedy deletion applies to pages that clearly violate policy, such as pure advertising or copyright-infringing content, and requires no community discussion.
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The entire text of the English Wikipedia is approximately 20GB
60%UnverifiedThe Wikipedia community generally requires sensitive information such as a person's death to cite authoritative media or official statements, but entries can still be maliciously altered or briefly contain false information before verification.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia uses an open-editing model in which anyone can modify entries, and its content relies on citations voluntarily provided by editors, so it cannot serve as a primary source for news of a person's death.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia does not produce original reporting but only compiles second-hand information, and its updates lag, so it cannot bear the responsibility of fact-checking.
50%UnverifiedIn the notability guidelines, 'significant coverage' requires sources to discuss the subject directly and in detail, rather than merely mentioning it in passing.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia's deletion process mainly has three paths: speedy deletion, proposed deletion, and deletion discussion.
50%UnverifiedIn the notability guidelines, 'independent' means the source cannot be material published by the subject itself, such as personal websites, autobiographies, or press releases.
50%UnverifiedThe criteria for judging notability are themselves subjective, and different language Wikipedia communities apply them at different strictness.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia's notability guidelines are not a yardstick for measuring personal achievement, but a threshold set to ensure that articles are verifiable and maintainable.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia's notability guidelines require that an article's subject receive significant coverage in independent reliable sources, which is an inclusion standard formed by community consensus.
50%UnverifiedIn Wikipedia deletion discussions, the subject may participate in the discussion but has no right to make the final decision.
50%UnverifiedSpeedy deletion applies to pages that clearly violate policy, such as pure advertising or copyright-infringing content, and requires no community discussion.
50%UnverifiedIn the notability guidelines, 'reliable' usually refers to publications with an editorial review mechanism, such as mainstream media, academic journals, and authoritative databases.
50%UnverifiedThe details of the notability guidelines differ slightly across different language versions of Wikipedia, but the basic framework is consistent.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia pages are often regarded by search engines as highly authoritative sources, and their content directly affects what is shown in knowledge panels.
50%UnverifiedDeletion discussion is the most common dispute-resolution method, in which community volunteers express opinions based on policy and source evidence, and an administrator makes the final ruling.
50%UnverifiedProposed deletion applies to uncontroversial deletions and is carried out if no one objects.
50%UnverifiedMany quantization tools use Wikipedia or the C4 corpus as the calibration set by default, and evaluators often also sample from the same corpus when computing KLD, causing data leakage between the calibration set and the evaluation set.
50%UnverifiedAbout 70% of websites worldwide depend on PHP to run, including WordPress, Facebook's early architecture and Wikipedia, among others.
50%UnverifiedWikipedia is often cited by Google's AI Overviews, but users may only see an AI answer that cites Wikipedia and may not realize that Wikipedia is a living project they themselves can edit and contribute to.
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