Talk:History of Wikipedia

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Ironic...

Quote from the #Effect on biographical articles section:

In February 2009, when Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg became federal minister on 10 February 2009, an unregistered user added an eleventh given name in the article on German Wikipedia: Wilhelm. Numerous newspapers took it over. When wary Wikipedians wanted to erase Wilhelm, the revert was reverted with regard to those newspapers. This case about Wikipedia reliability and journalists copying from Wikipedia became known as Falscher Wilhelm ("wrong Wilhelm").

This is an ironic statement. That name (specifically the supposed last name "Buhl"), which was added to Wikipedia in 2016, and to this article in 2019,[1] turns out to be wrong. It had been copied from the German Wikipedia by an unregistered IP user. The German Wikipedia had it from an unreliable source. Since then, "Buhl" has been added to countless Wikipedia articles across multiple languages, and has spread to reliable sources far and wide. See here for the details, particularly the "An independent, reliable source!" section (the full story is too long to repeat). And the sad part is, Wikipedians knew about the correct name and the potential pitfalls in 2009, but failed to preserve that knowledge.

That the English Wikipedia article also contained yet another fake first name ("Friedrich") from October 2020 until today[2] just adds one more layer to this story. Renerpho (talk) 07:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 November 2024

Template:Edit semi-protected it was made by Elliot Holbird 81.145.228.18 (talk) 12:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

File:Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. - FlightTime (open channel) 12:20, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Sorry. I don't want any changes. I was mistaken. I had taken a citation of en.wikipedia.org as article content and was operating under a misapprehension. 2600:4040:737C:F600:51EA:9693:681F:3ECB (talk) 23:13, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Who owns Wikipedia?

How can there not be a single mention of the fact the en.wikipedia.org is or was owned by OpenAI? Why is there no section detailing ownership of organization? Where else would one go for that information other than the history page? 2600:4040:737C:F600:C789:FF56:10A2:E601 (talk) 22:04, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

If you have sources, add it. Blockhaj (talk) 22:36, 8 June 2025 (UTC)