Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Believe it or not, the hottest controversy on Wikipedia right now isn’t about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or ...

In her recently translated book “The Crime and the Silence” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), Polish journalist Anna Bikont chillingly details the murder of at least 600 of the Jews of Jedwabne, ...

Wikipedia has banned three editors from working on articles related to Jewish history in Poland during World War II, in a bid to resolve editing disputes and safeguard its credibility. But the online ...

It may be true that the Nobel laureate was born and raised in Poland, but Singer is, in fact, best described as a Jewish author (JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York ...

The online encyclopedia didn’t take a position on the underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity with the Nazis, instead focused on whether editors adhered to the community’s code of ...

A Wikipedia article describing a World War II Nazi death camp in Warsaw in which large numbers of Poles were gassed was full of falsehoods and may have been the online encyclopedia’s most enduring ...

The fight over Singer’s identity offers lessons on the pitfalls of decentralized knowledge in the era of disinformation, with some possible insights about Polish ultranationalism. (JTA) — Few things ...

Oh, to have been there on that rainy October evening in Słubice, Poland, when they unveiled the world’s first-and-only monument in tribute to Wikipedia. The crowd huddled under umbrellas and tents as ...