Death and Wikipedia includes all discussions of how Wikipedia editors present death of people.
Wikipedia contains user-generated content. The Wikipedia community likes to update Wikipedia articles with information about deaths quickly after people die.[3][4] Many readers seek Wikipedia biographies of those whom they learn are recently deceased.[5]
The media has remarked on the site's quick response in updating biographies after the deaths of celebrities such as Michael Jackson[6] and Elizabeth II.[7][8][9]
In 2009 the Wikipedia community adopted new quality control measures to verify information on the biographies of living people, including claims of death.[10]
When a celebrity dies of a disease, then readers may also read about that disease in Wikipedia.[11]
See also
References
- ^ Rauwerda, Annie (September 9, 2022). "Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II's Wikipedia page so quickly?". Input. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Mannix, Liam (September 13, 2022). "Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Harrison, Stephen (16 August 2018). "Meet the People Who Quickly Update Wikipedia Pages When a Celebrity Like Aretha Franklin Dies". Slate Magazine.
- ^ Thomas, Rhys (5 October 2022). "Inside the world of Wikipedia's deaditors". The Face.
- ^ Goldenberg, Russell (August 2018). "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding.
- ^ Steiner, Thomas; van Hooland, Seth; Summers, Ed (13 May 2013). "MJ no more: using concurrent wikipedia edit spikes with social network plausibility checks for breaking news detection". Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web: 791–794. doi:10.1145/2487788.2488049.
- ^ McNamee, Kai (15 September 2022). "Fastest 'was' in the West: Inside Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death". NPR.org.
- ^ Lukpat, Alyssa (18 September 2022). "When Queen Elizabeth II Died, Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Were Ready". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Parsons, Jeff (9 September 2022). "How Wikipedia responded when news of the Queen's death broke". Metro.
- ^ Cohen, Noam (24 August 2009). "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People". The New York Times.
- ^ Mahroum, Naim; Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi; Sharif, Kassem; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Nucci, Daniele; Rosselli, Roberto; Brigo, Francesco; Adawi, Mohammad; Amital, Howard; Watad, Abdulla (June 2018). "Leveraging Google Trends, Twitter, and Wikipedia to Investigate the Impact of a Celebrityʼs Death From Rheumatoid Arthritis:". JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 24 (4): 188–192. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000692.