Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. Ramjohn is an ecologist by training, and for more than a decade, he ...
As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public ...
To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that backs Wikipedia — is releasing brief clips that highlight eight ...
On its 25th birthday, Wikipedia confronts A.I.-driven traffic drops while betting on licensing deals, video and new tools to ...
Following several years of declining participation among its contributors, Wikipedia is rolling out a new, easier-to-use visual-editing interface designed to make the site more welcoming to would-be ...
In the days since Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, her Wikipedia page has been updated over 558 times. The first edit made — marked on the page’s revision history section as happening at 3:40 p.m.
When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration. The article focused on polygamy, ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales blasted a “Gaza genocide” article on the site for anti-Israel bias — days after volunteer administrators locked the page under Wikipedia’s rules for highly disputed ...
Wikipedia is cracking down on Wiki-PR, a company that gets paid to write and edit posts on the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. “Sockpuppetry” — or using false user accounts to post and edit on ...
This summer has been filled with tales of odd, and at times shameful, Wikipedia edits coming from congressional IP addresses thanks to the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot that ...