Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first ...

Wikipedia is now such a ubiquitous part of online life that it’s hard to remember how strange the project seemed at first. I was a freshman in college in 2000, when Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger ...

The web, it turns out, is a fragile place. Companies, governments, educational institutions, individuals and organizations put up and take down sites all the time. The problem is that the web has ...

One of the most popular destinations on the Internet, Wikipedia, is currently in the midst of its annual fundraising drive through its nonprofit parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation.

If you haven't heard the news yet, the English-language version of Wikipedia -- all 3.8 million articles -- will be blacked out from 10pm ET tonight until 10pm on Wednesday night. During this 24-hour ...

Everyone knows that to legitimize anything you read on Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page and check out the references, notes, and citations ...

Wikipedia is an almost boundless source of information -- as close to a true compendium of human knowledge as we've ever come. It's not very pretty, though, is it? Page after page of black text on a ...