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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Well-Meaning Bots Duke It Out on Wikipedia
Just like Wikipedia’s human editors, automated computer programs designed to combat vandalism and create new pages sometimes end…
Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
A new program that teaches librarians how to edit Wikipedia might broaden the site’s user diversity. By Rick…
All Wikipedia Roads Lead to Philosophy, but Some of Them Go Through Southeast Europe First
The strange hierarchy of Wikipedia’s “first link network,” revealed. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images) Here’s an…
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.
The U.S. Needs to Stop Running Internet Security Like a Wikipedia Volunteer Project
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that our government is paying to undermine Internet security, not to fix it.
Jesus Christ: History’s Most Successful Meme
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.