# Wikipedia

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February 2023

# Wikipedia

Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif orders lifting of country’s ban on Wikipedia

The country’s media regulator had blocked the website last week over fears it hurt the sentiments of Muslims.

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Feb 7th 2023, 10:03 AM

All time

# whatcha reading?

These are the most visited pages on Wikipedia in 2018

Royals, football and films. Some things don’t change.

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Jan 12th 2019, 10:00 PM

# in the news

These were the top 50 most visited pages on Wikipedia in 2017

An Irish Wikipedian was among those who compiled a detailed list.

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Jan 6th 2018, 9:15 AM

# Interview

Wikipedia's community is 85% male, and founder Jimmy Wales isn't sure how to fix it

The Wikipedia team has tried to bring that ratio down since 2014 – but to no avail.

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Oct 29th 2017, 7:00 AM

# trump bump

Wikipedia got a huge bump in donations after Donald Trump's election win

TheJournal.ie sat down with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, who was in Dublin this week for Internet Day.

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Oct 28th 2017, 7:15 AM

# team no sleep

11 super creepy Wikipedia pages that will keep you up tonight

Night night now.

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Oct 19th 2017, 9:00 PM

# no filter

All the photos on the Wikipedia page for 'Irish cuisine' are beyond grim

We, as a nation, can do better.

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Aug 29th 2017, 10:32 AM

# credible source

Man executed in Texas despite last-ditch claims lawyer defended him using Wikipedia for research

A last minute appeal claimed that TaiChin Preyor’s trial lawyer had insufficient familiarity with Texan law in order to defend him adequately.

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Jul 28th 2017, 7:21 AM

# clamp down

Turkey has blocked access to Wikipedia

No reason was given for the order to block the online encyclopedia, but the politically unstable state has temporarily blocked access to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the past.

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Apr 29th 2017, 1:16 PM

# whopper mistake

Burger King advert tricked into telling customers the food contains 'cyanide' and 'rat meat'

The interactive ad voice-activates the google search on a phone but pranksters edited the Whopper’s wikipedia entry.

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Apr 13th 2017, 8:43 AM

# infowars

Wikipedia bans Daily Mail links as references

A spokesperson for the Daily Mail said it had “banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source in 2014 because of its unreliability”.

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Feb 9th 2017, 10:25 PM

# Wikipedia

13 weird and wonderful things on Wikipedia

A neverending treasure trove.

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Jan 7th 2017, 9:30 AM

# indifferent penguin

There was a hilarious caption war on this Wikipedia photo of an 'indifferent penguin'

“We cannot reliably verify the mind of the penguin as indifferent.”

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Dec 14th 2016, 7:57 AM

# my right foot

13 of the greatest edits in the history of Irish Wikipedia

Gags, real stories… Irish Wiki has it all.

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Nov 15th 2016, 9:30 PM

# bum bags

Someone has made a cheeky Irish edit to the Wikipedia page for fanny packs

Irish people call them WHAT?

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Sep 1st 2016, 10:08 AM

# personal life

12 celebrities with absolutely preposterous 'personal life' Wikipedia sections

The *best* part of a celebrity’s Wikipedia.

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Jun 7th 2016, 6:37 PM

# Wikipedia

11 reasons to be thankful that Wikipedia exists

It’s the website’s fifteenth birthday today.

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Jan 15th 2016, 4:54 PM

# from a to z

You might not think it but Wikipedia is 15 years old now

The online encyclopedia first arrived in 2001 and is now one of the visited sites in the world.

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Jan 15th 2016, 8:24 AM

# Spot the Difference

Wikipedia's newest editors aren't even human

The new AI system will spot errors to help reduce the workload for its human editors.

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Dec 2nd 2015, 4:05 PM

# Photography

Check out these stunning images of Ireland's monuments

These 10 images won the Wiki Loves Monuments competition.

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Nov 7th 2015, 7:00 PM

# Q-tip

You can create a special ebook based on your favourite Wikipedia articles

Should you have a long journey ahead and need to pass the time.

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Sep 24th 2015, 7:00 PM

# Size Matters

Remember Ja Rule? He got into a cringey beef with Wikipedia over his height last night

“I’m 5’9 not 5’6.”

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Sep 3rd 2015, 1:49 PM

# national monuments

The world's biggest photo competition is returning to Ireland

And it wants your images.

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Aug 30th 2015, 10:15 AM

# insanity

9 of the best excerpts from Irish celebrities' Wikipedia pages

A lot of gems in here.

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Aug 23rd 2015, 6:00 PM

# Gotcha

Wikipedia's longest-lived hoax has finally been outed

You just can’t believe anyone these days.

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Mar 23rd 2015, 10:46 AM

# He's alive

NFL player denies Wikipedia's claims he's dead

Emmanuel Sanders is alive and getting kicked.

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Nov 18th 2014, 12:05 AM

# citation needed

Nadia Forde's brand new Wikipedia page has already been tampered with

She’s a snake charmer, you say?

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Nov 17th 2014, 4:13 PM

# i want to believe

13 creepy Wikipedia pages that'll keep you awake tonight

It takes all sorts to make a world. All sorts.

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Nov 15th 2014, 8:15 PM

# Vow of privacy

Google has removed links to this criminal's Wikipedia page

Google removed links to the page of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.

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Aug 7th 2014, 7:58 AM

# war has begun

Photographer loses battle with Wikipedia over this amazing monkey selfie

It was “the work of a non-human animal”, apparently…

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Aug 6th 2014, 9:55 PM

# JFT96

Insults on Hillsborough Wikipedia page 'traced to British government computers'

Anonymous alterations were made from computers on a secure intranet, the Liverpool Echo reported.

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Apr 25th 2014, 2:42 PM

# Chancers

15 heroic acts of Wikipedia vandalism

Distorting reality, one edit at a time.

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Apr 9th 2014, 1:09 PM

# Wiki

This Cork village has the best Wikipedia entry in Ireland

Yes, Ballindangan is a pretty special place.

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Apr 9th 2014, 9:12 AM

# one popular guy

Jesus Christ named the number one "historical meme"

Justin Bieber is all the way down at number 8,633. Thank GOD.

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Dec 11th 2013, 10:57 AM

# Edit

Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' tries to increase representation of women there

Many high-profile women from the science, tech, engineering and maths fields have little or no profile on the contributor-generated online encyclopaedia.

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Oct 19th 2013, 5:30 PM