This article originally appeared on Undark. Wikipedia doesn’t exactly enjoy a reputation as the most reliable source on the internet. But a report released in June by the Wikimedia Foundation, which ...

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise and the future of shared knowledge.

For better and worse, Wikipedia is one of the places most of us go to when we want definitive information on a topic. But a recent scandal is highlighting one of the major pitfalls of the platform: ...

See our related post: Wikipedia at 15: Millions of readers in hundreds of languages. Data for this report come from Pew Research Center analyses of publicly available sources. Data for the number of ...