Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

The most cited source in secondary and higher education student papers is now getting the same kind of plagiarism check those student papers also often get. The non-profit Wikipedia has struck an ...

Wikipedia, one of the known free encyclopaedia in the world, has finally received its first update after ten years. The foundation behind Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia unveiled ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The technology ...

As per the recent reports, it was stated that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has sent a notice to Wikipedia, raising the concerns related to alleged bias and inaccuracies on the ...

The ever-widening maelstrom surrounding tweets by Sarah Jeong, the latest hire by the New York Times editorial board, may consume all the atoms in the known universe, and as Wikipedia is of this world ...

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Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman (DoubleClick's former CEO and former CTO, respectively) and Eliot Horowitz founded ShopWiki in New York City last year with the goal of “indexing everything that can be ...

Wikipedia, the world's digital encyclopedia, is celebrating 15 years of educating and on occasion, misinforming, us all. But while Wikipedia is a launchpad for the acquisition of all sorts of general ...

Editor's note: This article has been significantly revised post-publication to correct for factual errors in the original version.* She got into the habit of Googling her username, just in case.