Anyone can sign up for a Wikipedia account and create a page about anything, even themselves. Here's everything else you should know before you start using the online encyclopedia.

More than an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has become a community, a library, a constitution, an experiment, a political manifesto—the closest thing there is to an online public square.

Wikipedia has gone through some dramatic and some other subtle changes over the years, but the default Vector wiki format hasn’t seen an update in over a decade. Gif: Wikimedia Foundation On ...

Still, many critics have tried to downplay its role as a source of valid information and have often pointed to the Encyclopedia Britannica as an example of an accurate reference. For its study ...

Wikipedia, which launched in 2001 is a free online encyclopedia run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and written collaboratively by its users. There are 10 rules and five pillars for ...

On the world’s free, collaboratively edited encyclopedia, even the co-founder is powerless to change his entry, for vanity carries little weight with the Wikipedians in charge ...

By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries.

Math Trek Probing Wikipedia editors’ hive mind for rules on cooperative behavior Wikipedia, Encyclopedia, cooperation By Julie Rehmeyer August 30, 2013 at 3:12 pm ...

Wikipedia is a nigh-essential source of information, but it's usually so accessible in Western countries that users forget when it isn't. Take Turkey, which blocked its citizens from accessing the ...

China is developing an online version of its national encyclopedia as an alternative to Wikipedia. As the South China Morning Post reports, the forthcoming third edition of the Chinese ...

AI bots rely heavily on Wikipedia, which feed them a diet of half-truths, ideological bias and leftist lies — and then pass ...

Wikipedia wants to be exempted from a British law that requires big online platforms to verify the identities of their users, ...