The Wikimedia Foundation has operated Wikipedia for over two decades as a nonprofit entity, relying on a global community of ...

The most cited source in secondary and higher education student papers is now getting the same kind of plagiarism check those student papers also often get. The non-profit Wikipedia has struck an ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

Wikipedia, one of the known free encyclopaedia in the world, has finally received its first update after ten years. The foundation behind Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia unveiled ...

Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word “truth.” Why should we care? Because ­Wikipedia’s articles ...

Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The technology ...

Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman (DoubleClick's former CEO and former CTO, respectively) and Eliot Horowitz founded ShopWiki in New York City last year with the goal of “indexing everything that can be ...

The ever-widening maelstrom surrounding tweets by Sarah Jeong, the latest hire by the New York Times editorial board, may consume all the atoms in the known universe, and as Wikipedia is of this world ...

How do we judge whether a person knows what he or she is talking about? How do we gauge someone's credibility? At least in part, we rely on a set of cues -- titles, university degrees, papers ...