For most of the world, the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week meant the end of an era. But for Wikipedia editors, her passing meant it was time to get to work. Immediately after the announcement of ...

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. While some on the ...

The death of former Enron chief Ken Lay on Wednesday underscored the challenges facing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which, as the news was breaking, offered a variety of causes for his death. Lay, ...

For about as long as Wikipedia has been around, Wikipedia editors have changed “is” to “was” at the speed of light to denote the death of a public figure. Upon Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the world ...

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Within seconds of Queen Elizabeth II's death, an army of Wikipedia editors rushed to update her page on the site. It was chaos. To many around the world, the death of Queen Elizabeth meant the end of ...