#The guardians of Wikipedia's climate change page

“#The guardians of Wikipedia's climate change page”
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Femke Nijsse, a climate researcher, made her first Wikipedia edit seven years ago. In 2018, she started editing Wikipedia’s English climate change webpage. Since then, she’s grown increasingly obsessed.

“I slowly got more addicted,” said Nijsse, who recently submitted a Ph.D. thesis in mathematics at the University of Exeter’s climate systems group.

Nijsse has become the de facto leader (but certainly not ruler) of a small, impressively devoted group of current editors to Wikipedia’s climate change page. The article is either one of the first, or first, results that appear when one searches the web for “climate change” or “global warming,” resulting in over 6 million views in 2019 (this doesn’t include 135 other “climate change” pages written in different languages). It’s a hugely visible source of meticulously-vetted climate information, during a time when scientific misinformation spreads on the web like a furious 21st century California wildfire Read more…

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