If anyone still questions whether or not Twitter has dethroned mainstream media as the place for discovering about breaking news they need to look no further than the recent Michael Jackson death to ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Sometimes (a lot of times?) the internal politics of Wikipedia mirrors its real-world counterparts. In ...

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

Wikipedia’s editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable ...

It might seem like common sense to exclude Wikipedia from the list of great science resources, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like you to reconsider that notion. A ...

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 ...

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

Add Wikipedia to the growing list of media outlets that are ignoring the memo that Donald Trump won the election and liberals ...

Each time a volunteer editor adds a new fact to one of Wikipedia's over 44 million articles, they're required to cite where they learned it. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the ...