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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation says the datasets can help researchers understand Wikipedia reader behavior. If you're simply curious what other people who have the tendency to spend hours on the website are ...