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 ...

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

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 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 ...

Wikipedia is one of the internet’s last bastions of freely accessible public information, and since it’s relatively unspoiled by the type of polarization common on social media it can feel refreshing ...