It was just a decade ago when people talked about the website Wikipedia as, let's be blunt, a place for lies and nonsense. As Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott noted in "The Office," "Wikipedia is the ...

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The popular online encyclopedia blamed A.I. for a dip in human views. Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online ...

The foundation that operates Wikipedia on Tuesday unveiled a new set of rules that aim to combat online harassment and misinformation on the digital platform. Wikimedia’s new “Universal Code of ...

Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Skeptics worried that much of the ...

In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than ...

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 ...

The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who ...

EXCLUSIVE — Congressional committees headed by Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) are demanding information from the Wikimedia Foundation about the efforts of “foreign operations and ...

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have released the results of a study that found analyzing Wikipedia data can track influenza outbreaks faster than the ...

Wikimedia Foundation, the owner of Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Russian court order that demanded the site remove information related to the invasion of Ukraine, stating that the removal ...