Earlier this week at South by Southwest, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video site will use excerpts from Wikipedia to counteract videos promoting conspiracy theories. This new feature ...

At this year’s WikiConference North America, Kevin Li, a 17-year-old freshman at Stanford, told me that Wikipedia administrators like him have three special powers. They can 1) block and unblock users ...

At 9:50 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Aretha Franklin’s publicist announced that the Queen of Soul had died from advanced pancreatic cancer. Eleven minutes later, a Wikipedia user named ...

A battle of editorial will is currently being fought on Wikipedia, the most important source of information on the internet. At the center of the controversy — though not a participant in it — is Todd ...

For a brief moment, the California Republican Party supported Nazism. At least, that’s what Google said. That’s because someone vandalized the Wikipedia page for the party on May 31 to list “Nazism” ...

When she’s not working in a physics lab, one London researcher is making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she’s doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. Jess Wade has ...

When Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize this month, she became only the third woman in history to receive the award in physics. An optical physicist at the University of Waterloo, Strickland is ...

Here is a rough translation of the notice on Italian Wikipedia's home page from Google Translate: On 5 July 2018 the European Parliament will decide whether to speed up the approval of the copyright ...

In one effort to stop the trolls, Wikimedia Foundation partnered with Jigsaw (the tech incubator formerly known as Google Ideas) on a research project called Detox using machine learning to flag ...

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 ...