If anyone still questions whether or not Twitter has dethroned mainstream media as the place for discovering about breaking news they need to look no further than the recent Michael Jackson death to ...

When Karen Bass, a congresswoman from Los Angeles, emerged in late July as a serious contender to be Joe Biden’s running mate, interest in her Wikipedia page exploded. By that time, the entry had ...

Kevin Li recently faced a daunting task. Wikipedia contributors had just spent nearly two months locked in a heated debate over whether Fox News’ website should be permitted as a reference for the ...

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Late last month, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with 855,279 articles, no human editors, and no way for users to request improvements beyond a suggestion box addressed to ...

Wikipedia is a fascinating corner of the web—a font of knowledge that leads to expected places. But as any teacher or professor will tell you, it's not a primary source. Use it as a jumping-off point, ...

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

Wikipedia’s editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable ...

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

Fifty percent of physicians look up conditions on the site, and some are editing articles themselves to improve the quality of available information. In spite of all of our teachers' and bosses' ...