How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News
The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
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It's Wikipedia's Birthday
In honor of the free encyclopedia's birthday, here's our coverage from the past few years.
War and Peace, on Wikipedia
A new study aims to understand social conflict, using the Internet encyclopedia as a test case.
The Political Controversy of Wikipedia Science Articles
Edit wars threaten the value of Wikipedia's articles on global warming, acid rain, and evolution, researchers argue.
Fact-Checking With Wikipedia
A network of Wikipedia infobox links helps reveal claims' veracity, researchers find.
U.S. Needs to Stop Running Internet Security Like a Wikipedia Project
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that our government is paying to undermine Internet security, not to fix it.
Why Jesus Christ Is the Most Significant Person Ever
With their new book Who's Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Steven Skiena and Charles Ward try to quantify history's most significant human beings.
Wikipedia's Political Slant Lessens
Eleven years old, Wikipedia is growing less lefty, more neutral, according to a new survey of political catch-phrases on the site.
