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 ...

Wikipedia might seem like a librarian’s nemesis, but the online encyclopedia, its community, and libraries are increasingly working together to provide free and open information to all. Wikipedia ...

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 ...

Wikipedia's Spanish, Italian, and Polish language versions was blacked out in protest against new EU copyright reforms being voted upon on Thursday. The new laws could force websites like Reddit to ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...