Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...

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Acid rain is a popular term referring to the deposition of wet poo and cats. No, not really. But that’s what people looking at Wikipedia’s article on acid rain could have read on December 1, 2011. An ...

Back in December, online encyclopedia – written and edited collaboratively by anyone – encountered a nice wollop of Wiki-controversy. You might recall it was jumpstarted by former journalist John ...

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

Depending on what day you search, Wikipedia may say global warming is "a sham" or that there is "a consensus view that it is man-made." That kind of flux isn't unusual: Wikipedia pages on hot-button ...

Between 7 and 11% of prominent chemists, both living and dead, are women. That’s according to the worldview represented on Wikipedia, anyway. Compared with employment and degree statistics for ...