New research, which details pro-Kremlin edits made to the English Wikipedia page for the Russo-Ukrainian war, could be used to create models to detect disinfo (Masha Borak/Wired)

Masha Borak / Wired:
Experts say the vast majority of independent Uyghur-run websites have ceased to exist after Beijing’s crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region  —  China’s Muslim minority used to have its own budding cluster of websites, forums, and social media.  Now that’s been erased.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter makes notes on tweets from its crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch visible to all US users  —  After last month’s expansion of Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, Twitter announced this morning the notes fact-checkers leave on tweets will now be visible to all U.S. users.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Wikimedia begins rolling out updated editing features for new contributors, such as mentorship and suggestions for cross-linking articles and other first steps  —  Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones …

Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
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.

Samuel Breslow / Slate:
A look at debates by Wikipedia editors over citing Fox News, deemed a “marginally reliable” source for politics and science and now cited in 16,000+ articles  —  Kevin Li recently faced a daunting task.  Wikipedia contributors had just spent nearly two months locked in a heated debate …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
For search results on mobile, Google is replacing the “Ad” label with “Sponsored” in bold and moving it above the site URL in a separate line  —  Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance.