Death and Wikipedia includes all discussions of how Wikipedia editors present death of people.

Wikipedia contains user-generated content. The Wikipedia community likes to update Wikipedia articles with information about deaths quickly after people die.[1][2] Many readers seek Wikipedia biographies of those whom they learn are recently deceased.[3]

The media has remarked on the Wikipedia's readiness to update biographies after the deaths of Michael Jackson[4] and Elizabeth II.[5][6][7]

In 2009 the Wikipedia community adopted new quality control measures to verify information on the biographies of living people, including claims of death.[8]

When a celebrity dies of a disease, then readers may also read about that disease in Wikipedia.[9]

References

  1. ^ Harrison, Stephen (16 August 2018). "Meet the People Who Quickly Update Wikipedia Pages When a Celebrity Like Aretha Franklin Dies". Slate Magazine.
  2. ^ Thomas, Rhys (5 October 2022). "Inside the world of Wikipedia's deaditors". The Face.
  3. ^ Goldenberg, Russell (August 2018). "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding.
  4. ^ Steiner, Thomas; van Hooland, Seth; Summers, Ed (13 May 2013). "MJ no more: using concurrent wikipedia edit spikes with social network plausibility checks for breaking news detection". Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web: 791–794. doi:10.1145/2487788.2488049.
  5. ^ McNamee, Kai (15 September 2022). "Fastest 'was' in the West: Inside Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death". NPR.org.
  6. ^ Lukpat, Alyssa (18 September 2022). "When Queen Elizabeth II Died, Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Were Ready". Wall Street Journal.
  7. ^ Parsons, Jeff (9 September 2022). "How Wikipedia responded when news of the Queen's death broke". Metro.
  8. ^ Cohen, Noam (24 August 2009). "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People". The New York Times.
  9. ^ Mahroum, Naim; Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi; Sharif, Kassem; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Nucci, Daniele; Rosselli, Roberto; Brigo, Francesco; Adawi, Mohammad; Amital, Howard; Watad, Abdulla (June 2018). "Leveraging Google Trends, Twitter, and Wikipedia to Investigate the Impact of a Celebrityʼs Death From Rheumatoid Arthritis:". JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 24 (4): 188–192. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000692.

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