‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pageshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/a-difficult-line-meet-the-editors-tackling-wikipedias-arms-trade-pages
Volunteers and new recruits come together for ‘wikithon’ to put more detail about industry into public domain “Anyone can edit Wikipedia,” the adage goes. But, it turns out, a relatively small number actually do. What is worthy of a digital page in the world’s largest and most-read encyclopedia is decided by roughly 270,000 active volunteers, enthusiasts who populate the online resource with information on anything from 19th-century medicine to TikTok trends. Inevitably, some subjects are sidelined – the global south, notable women – but a new batch of Wikipedian recruits are wa…
