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Andrew Lih

(He/Him)
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: The New York Times, PBS, The Toronto Star, Quartz, Daily Herald
Covers:  video, multimedia, journalism, online collaboration, Wikipedia, mobile, collaboration, crowdsourcing, technology, future of journalism, museums, GLAM, musetech, linked open data, AI, LLM
Wikimedian-at-large at @Smithsonian, @MetMuseum @Wikimedia strategist, author The @Wikipedia Revolution; Tooting at @fuzheado@wikis.world
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WikiCredCon: Record Number of Attendees Participate in 6th Annual WikiConference North America

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By Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Andrew Lih, Kevin Payravi
| misinfocon.com
Opening plenary on Saturday, November 9, 2019. Photo by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 4.0 Four-day conference at MIT focused on information reliability and credibility By Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Kevin Payravi and Andrew Lih A record 350 attendees gathered to participate in the Wikipedia community’s sixth annual WikiConference North America (WCNA) on November 8–11 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
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Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?

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By Andrew Lih
| Daily Herald Verified
Editor's note: Andrew Lih is an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of the book "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia." As Wikipedia turns 15, we invited him to discuss what Wikipedia has achieved in its time online -- and what's next for a site that has lately been besieged by internal conflict and controversy. On Jan.
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Wikipedia hits 15 years, but what comes next?

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By Andrew Lih
| The Toronto Star Verified
WASHINGTON—On Jan. 15, Wikipedia officially celebrates 15 years as the Internet’s “free encyclopedia,” cataloguing humankind’s achievements in real time and, more importantly, rescuing desperate students facing school assignment deadlines. In that time, it has hastened the end of Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia and supplanted Britannica as the dominant reference work in English.
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Can Wikipedia Survive?

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By Andrew Lih
| The New York Times Verified
The pool of potential Wikipedia editors could dry up as the number of mobile users keeps growing; it’s simply too hard to manipulate complex code on a tiny screen. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia’s operations but is not directly involved in content, is investigating solutions. Some ideas include touch-screen tools that would let Wikipedia editors sift through information and share content from their phones. What has not suffered is fund-raising.
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In Hong Kong’s protests, technology is a battlefield

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By Andrew Lih
| Quartz Verified
It was an image that fascinated the world—a sea of lights coming from thousands of Hong Kong protesters waving their lit up mobile phones in the darkness. That’s what you get from a city that averages more than two mobile phones per person.
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