How Wikipedia’s editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more (Jody Serrano/Gizmodo)

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How Wikipedia’s editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more  —  RIP, Queen Elizabeth II.  There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people go when a famous person dies is Wikipedia.

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