Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first ...

The Internet Archive this week announced it was partnering with Wikipedia to link the latter’s book citations to the former’s redoubtable library. In future, when users look up a source on page, they ...

The web, it turns out, is a fragile place. Companies, governments, educational institutions, individuals and organizations put up and take down sites all the time. The problem is that the web has ...

Something about this massive online knowledge repository is working better than the rest of the internet, and we can learn from it. Wikipedia is a fascinating corner of the web—a font of knowledge ...

Elon Musk’s new AI-driven encyclopedia, Grokipedia, sparks intense online debate as critics accuse it of bias and Wikipedia reaffirms its human edited legacy.

Wikipedia has publicly responded to Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia, Grokipedia, emphasizing its human-driven, ...

Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.

Wikipedia, the online reference tool that's allowed countless students to avoid the library, turns 10 today. The free collaborative encyclopedia's growth over the last decade into the fifth most ...

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I know it doesn't feel like it now, but please believe me: There are worse things than losing access to Wikipedia — even temporarily. For example, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (aka H.R.3261) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover payments, cryptography, and digital currencies. Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? The ...

The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising articles to reflect a ...