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Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has been garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2024, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

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  • Kuznetsova, Alisa (February 6, 2024). "Is Wikipedia The Last Hope For Free Speech In Putin's Russia?". Worldcrunch. Retrieved February 9, 2024. But the challenge lies in the constant upkeep of Wikipedia articles. They require regular updates, clarifications, and error corrections. In Russian Wikipedia alone, around 700,000 corrections are made to 330,000 articles each month, with approximately 7,000 new articles created monthly. It's a substantial undertaking.
  • Allen, Melyssa (February 13, 2024). "Students Seek to Correct Gender Bias on Wikipedia". Meredith College. Retrieved February 15, 2024. Dr. Butz assigned students to contribute to "Wiki Project Women Scientists" or "Underrepresentation of Science and Women in Africa", two projects that aim to correct the gender bias on Wikipedia. The requirement was to write an article about a woman scientist who does not have a Wiki page.
  • Mendelle, Hava (February 17, 2024). "Wikipedia: how safe is crowdsourcing the truth?". Spectator Australia. Retrieved February 17, 2024. The problem here is that with millions of articles on any given topic, the majority of people are likely to read smaller articles as fact regardless of any increased bias or lack of impartiality.
  • "Yoruba Wikipedia hits 25 million views in 2023". The Nation. February 17, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024. The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has also collaborated with Mr. Macaroni, a multi-award-winning Nigerian comic skit maker and actor with millions of followers on various social media, to produce a short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language on Wikipedia. The skit was viewed by millions of Nigerians. These efforts, among others, have helped to increase the traffic and readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia.
  • "Retired Czechs refine Wikipedia as hobby". Agence France-Presse. February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 20, 2024. "I'm happy when I can take a look at a piece of history and find out someone has praised the entry or even added something. That's what makes me happy," Kadnerova said. "A friend of mine once told me I wasn't doing enough for mankind. So I finally am," she added.
  • "The Top 10 Most Viewed K-pop Artists on Wikipedia from 2015 to 2024". Allkpop. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. From 2015 to February 2024, BTS has dominated at #1 with 90.5 million views as the most-viewed group and K-pop act overall, while Kim Taehyung, aka V, ranks as the most popular solo artist at #3 with 42.5 million views.
  • Ackermann, Rebecca (February 26, 2024). "Wikimedia's CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved March 6, 2024. While Wikipedia's traffic didn't shift significantly during ChatGPT's meteoric rise, the site has seen a general decline in visitors over the last decade as a result of Google's ongoing search updates and generational changes in online behavior.
  • "Wikipedia's volunteer editors to have access to all Taylor & Francis journals". The Bookseller. February 26, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Martin Wilson, head of content at T&F, added: "Wikipedia is the first port of call for so many of us when we want to find out about a new topic and Wikipedia editors do an amazing job helping to keep it as accurate and up to date as possible. We hope this extended partnership with The Wikipedia Library will make Taylor & Francis Online an even more useful resource for supporting that work."
  • Harrison Dupré, Maggie (February 29, 2024). "Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal". Futurism. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Wikipedia's source guidelines now provide this striking table that sums up the site's view on CNET: that it was reliable until it was acquired by Red Ventures, unreliable for the period it was caught using AI, and that since 2020 it's suffered a "deterioration in editorial standards."
  • Edwards, Benj (February 29, 2024). "AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET's reliability rating". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 6, 2024. As of this writing, Wikipedia's Perennial Sources list currently features three entries for CNET broken into three time periods:


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