What you should know about Wikipedia. In short, Wikipedia is a multilingual, openly collaborative online information platform. Like the "wikis" that came before it, the online encyclopedia's ...

An analysis found that about 40% of over 1,000 randomly selected Wikipedia articles contain outdated or incorrect information ...

Yet in an era when Silicon Valley's promises look less gilded than before, Wikipedia shines by comparison. It is the only not-for-profit site in the top 10, and one of only a handful in the top 100.

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. You have likely encountered them before: the banner ads on English Wikipedia that encourage you to ...

Wikipedia is often the first and trusted website for information of all kinds. However, a new study finds that many articles ...

Because of this, the article about the pool is destined to be the very last page changed, making it a strange, self-referential ending. It’s Wikipedia editing itself about Wikipedia’s own end.

Wikipedia, which has been referred to as a world treasure, turns 20 on Friday.According to research conducted over the years — including a scientific study published by the journal Nature in ...

"Simple Wikipedia has 184,000 pages and 90,000 images," Xowa writes. "The text version uses 200MB and sets up in five minutes. With images, this expands to 2GB and 30 minutes of downloading time.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with sociologist Dr. Francesca Tripodi about her recent study looking at the gender bias on Wikipedia and who gets to be "notable." ...