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 ...

For Internet Archive fans, a group that includes longtime Internet users, researchers, students, historians, lawyers, and the ...

Larry Sanger, the co-founder and original editor of Wikipedia, told the RCP Podcast on Thursday about his nine suggestions ...

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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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” ...

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) ...

Wikipedia is probably a regular part of your online life. And if you own a smartphone, you can take advantage of apps and extensions that give you access to its vast repository even when you’re ...