Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than six million articles. The feat, which comes roughly 19 years after ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What ...

Wikipedia turns 15 on Friday. A key element in its creators’ vision of a user-generated online encyclopedia was to make it a repository of information serving audiences in multiple languages. The ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...

Wikipedia is one of the world's most popular websites, but scientists rarely cite it in their papers. Despite this, the online encyclopedia seems to be shaping the language that researchers use in ...

See our related post: Wikipedia at 15: Millions of readers in hundreds of languages. Data for this report come from Pew Research Center analyses of publicly available sources. Data for the number of ...

The idea behind Wikipedia is, let’s face it, crazy. An online encyclopedia full of verifiable information, ideally with minimal bias, that can be freely edited by anyone with an internet connection is ...

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