Facts are stubborn things. And that stubbornness was a vital asset for Wikipedia in 2020, as it unapologetically banned from its pages disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and the presidential ...

On Wikipedia’s recent 20th birthday, the online encyclopedia was widely praised for its success in spreading reliable information about political events. Wikipedia is one of the few socially driven ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is criticizing the site’s left-wing bias, saying the popular online encyclopedia has become an irretrievably broken platform for socialism. “The days of Wikipedia’s ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In February, Molly White, age 27, received yet another creepy message: “We have three people who are going to ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. At a Monday press conference commemorating Wikipedia’s 20 th birthday, Jimmy Wales joked, “We were never as ...

On January 6, Jason Moore was working from his home in Portland, Oregon and flipping between CNN and MSNBC as Donald Trump supporters gathered outside the U.S. Capitol. “Watching what was unfolding in ...

In my new book, We’ll Tell You What to Think: Wikipedia, Propaganda and the Making of Liberal Consensus, I expose who funds Wikipedia, what their intentions are, and how they seek to shape narratives ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Wikipedia doesn’t exactly enjoy a reputation as the most reliable source on the internet. But a report released in June by the Wikimedia Foundation, which ...

The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia recently updated its website with a small but great new feature for iOS and macOS users. Wikipedia is finally accepting Apple Pay as a payment method on its ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Wikipedia is a thing that shouldn’t work, but somehow does. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers, without pay, collectively trying to document every corner of human knowledge, including ...