Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Sometimes (a lot of times?) the internal politics of Wikipedia mirrors its real-world counterparts. In ...

Add Wikipedia to the growing list of media outlets that are ignoring the memo that Donald Trump won the election and liberals are no longer in charge. In a revealing new report, the Media Research ...

What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic, followed by another topic and then another. Or maybe you’ve heard a teacher or ...

It might seem like common sense to exclude Wikipedia from the list of great science resources, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like you to reconsider that notion. A ...

Download the lesson materials here. The good, the bad and the ugly of Wikipedia: Students will learn ways that Wikipedia can be used as a reliable source, how to make […] ...

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”?

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...

As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia. While plenty of professors have ...

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Each time a volunteer editor adds a new fact to one of Wikipedia's over 44 million articles, they're required to cite where they learned it. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the ...

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 ...