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 ...

Wikipedia has always been somewhat idyllic in its business model: an enormous treasury of knowledge accumulated and edited by The Whole World. We all collaborate, as brothers and sisters, to build the ...

Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday that his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away all the software, computing, storage and network access that ...

Researchers have developed new software that will allow users to put more and larger images on Wikipedia. Every day millions of users upload thousands of images to Wikipedia. Until now, the processing ...

Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia’s reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable ...