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Netanyahu grabs top spot in Hebrew Wikipedia search

In April, the Israeli lunar spacecraft Beresheet crashed on the Moon carrying a DVD-sized digital-analog hybrid disk of the English Wikipedia.

By World Israel News Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the number one Hebrew Wikipedia term users searched for in 2019, according to a statement on behalf of Wikipedia Israel as cited by the Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

According to the statement, Netanyahu was searched for 733,506 times in 2019.

The multilingual online open collaboration encyclopedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on Jan. 15, 2001. It is hosted and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and is edited by using a wiki-based editing system. According to Wikipedia, it is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet.

Wikipedia claims that more than 40 million reference articles in 301 different languages other than English have been published. The English language Wikipedia claims to have at least 5,988,325 articles in its indexes.

In April, the Israeli lunar spacecraft Beresheet crashed on the Moon carrying a DVD-sized digital-analog hybrid disk of the English Wikipedia.

Despite its popularity, Wikipedia has often been criticized for publishing information that is biased, slanderous, and false.

In a report by the Washington Free Beacon, the Israel Group, a nonprofit organization that combats anti-Israel bias, will be launching an initiative in 2020 that will expose the true identities of many leading anti-Israel Wikipedia editors who have edited more than 325,000 Israel-related submissions during the past 10 years.

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Already, the Israel Group has revealed the name of the most dangerous anti-Israel editor: Australian computer scientist Brendan McKay who goes by the Wikipedia username “Zero0000.”

The Israel Group considers him very dangerous to Israel’s interests because he is a Wikipedia administrator. This means that he has vast powers that regular editors don’t have, such as the ability to block and ban regular editors and to delete edits and articles from the historical record.