Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal ...

Wikipedia is often touted as the world’s encyclopedia. But how much of your part of the globe is represented on the website depends on where you live. That’s the finding of a new study by a team of ...

When I first meet someone, I can often tell if they’ve taken the time to Google my name and read my Wikipedia entry. Having a Wikipedia page devoted to you is an unsettling experience for anyone: ...

It's not just students and internet debaters who lean on Wikipedia in a pinch. MIT CSAIL researchers have conducted a study revealing that Wikipedia can influence the legal decisions of judges when ...

Wikipedia might be the people’s encyclopedia, but it turns out it’s being run by the one percent — of users, that is. A detailed new study at Purdue University reviews Wikipedia edits from 2001 to ...

A new study from Hungarian researchers collected and analyzed information on the sometimes heated edit process of Wikipedia. Researchers found that edits come in bursts rather than a steady stream — ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Wikipedia — the world's largest online encyclopedia — celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. One of the biggest collaborative efforts in human history, thousands of volunteers around the world ...

Hey teachers: Leave those kids alone! Or at least stop telling them not to use Wikipedia in their homework assignments, since you're all doing it, too. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

Based on a study of observable changes author-users made to three Wikipedia articles, this article contends that Wikipedia supports notions of revision, collaboration, and authority that writing ...