The Wikimedia Foundation, which organizes and runs Wikipedia, announced a few feature Tuesday that allows users to turn articles into free e-books that can be read on Kindles, PCs and other ...

Using some programming knowhow, he wrote software that downloaded all the articles in the English edition of Wikipedia -- about 50 gigabytes' worth -- and dropped it into a database he created.

Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than six million articles. The feat, which comes roughly 19 years ...

In 2012 a U.K. student created a huge single volume of hand-picked Wikipedia articles, but this amounted to just 0.01 percent of Wikipedia’s English-language content.

Jar’Edo Wens is an Australian aboriginal deity, the god of “physical might” and “earthly knowledge.” He’s been name-dropped in books. Carved into rocks. And, as of March, conclusively ...

Wikipedia, which describes itself as the free encyclopedia that everyone can edit, has an archive of 12 million articles and is the most-read reference source on the web. Twitter Icon Facebook Icon ...

A few weeks ago, pundits and columnists lauded a Wikipedia editor in San Jose, Calif., who had rooted out and changed no fewer than 47,000 instances where contributors to the online encyclopedia ...

Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the “English Wikipedia Administrator ...

The books will be displayed in a case longer than 10 metres long at the annual Wikimania conference, due to be held in London's Barbican Centre this August.