Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

"Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one... its contributors are difficult for any particular state to persecute... there's no government funding to cut off or advertisers to boycott. And it's so popular and useful that even highly repressive governments hesitate to block it."

I interviewed the journalist who interviewed Brian Wilson about Norbit Because someone had to figure out if this pervasive internet rumor was true.

This was a pleasure to write: edithistory.substack.com/p/i-intervie...

I'll stand by it as a good faith bad edit!

I edited Pope Leo XIV's Wikipedia article to say he was a Cubs fan. But I'm not the one who started the rumor. I swear, I did nothing wrong.

This guy edited the new pope's Wikipedia page to say he was a Cubs fan—everyone was saying it, and there was a source (USA Today) to back it up.

Then the new pope's brother confirmed that Leo has always been a White Sox fan.

Lesson: Verifiability ≠ truth.

edithistory.substack.com/p/i-edited-p...

Stephen Harrison’s The Editors is the Most Relevant Novel I’ve Read I understand that sounds like hyperbole. Let me explain.

Shoutout to @dflovett.bsky.social for confirming that my Wikipedia inspired novel is, in fact, a “banger.”

Full write-up in his newsletter, Edit History.

open.substack.com/pub/edithist...

Je connais, y'a même des citations de moi dans la presse de l'époque 😅

So there was a failed attempt by Google to create a Wikipedia competitor.
@dgoldman.bsky.social @revmagdalen.bsky.social

thank you! I appreciate you reading and sharing. Things have been a bit of a whirlwind for me since Flaa shared her YouTube video about this.

Remember Knol, Google’s user-generated Encyclopedia? Yeah, me neither.

Here's my latest Substack thing, about Knol, something I had never heard of but is one of Google's past failures: edithistory.substack.com/p/remember-k...

Thank you! Working on the follow-up from it.

Glad you liked it and thank you for sharing!

Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign? I think it was. Here's what I've learned.

"Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign?" a compelling investigation + a good read by @dflovett.bsky.social

Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign? I think it was. Here's what I've learned.

I wrote a thing I'm pretty proud of: edithistory.substack.com/p/was-wikipe...

I am one of the editors of Elon Musk’s Wikipedia page. I’m confident that he does not understand Wikipedia at all. And (probably) neither do you.

I wrote another thing about Wikipedia: edithistory.substack.com/p/i-am-one-o...

if you're an SEO person, you might be happy to know that @seomemesnearme.bsky.social is on Bluesky now

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

Why is the Wikipedia page for “Search engine optimization” so bad? And what I intend to do about it.

I published something on substack for the first time. It's about the Wikipedia article for "Search engine optimization": open.substack.com/pub/edithist...

Still very curious about who Jed Wallace, the "hired gun" who manipulated social on behalf of Baldon, really is. This locked and deleted reddit post only makes me wonder more: www.reddit.com/r/blakelivel...

I suspect that it's also harder to get that TikTok data than it is for the other channels.

My suspicion, especially seeing that @sparktoro.bsky.social doesn't have a TikTok link in their footer, is they are waiting for it to get banned and not investing time until then.

Anyone else stumped by @sparktoro.bsky.social 's absence of TikTok data? Is it because they're waiting for TikTok to be banned and ignoring it until then?

Is there anything like the euphoria that comes from capturing a seasonal PAA?

What the Possible TikTok Ban Means for Your Marketing Plan | Rocket55 TikTok might be banned in the United States. What does this mean for your marketing? How can you future proof against this uncertainty?

We wrote a pretty good article on the @rocket55agency.bsky.social blog about the possible TikTok ban: www.rocket55.com/tiktok-ban-p...

Watched Gremlins last night. Can't help but wonder about the unfulfilled Judge Reinhold storyline in it.

Awesome, stoked to see this unfold.

Exciting stuff. Are you still at Wix? Is this a side hustle or the full deal?

Deleting my reddit account is one I don't think I can do. What tipped you over the edge?

"Intriguing" has become the #1 "AI wrote this" word for me. Normal people just don't say "intriguing" very often, while AI pretty much uses it in every paragraph.

'Grey Friday' today: The day where companies take advantage of the fact loads of people don't actually know whether it's Black Friday or not.

Some go out with more 'early deals', some just straight up pretend it's Black Friday today.