"I'm not sure anybody's going to trust an encyclopedia that has a thumb on the scales," Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told ...
Investigative journalist John Stossel reports on what he describes as the increasing politicization of Wikipedia, arguing that left-leaning editors have used the platform to discredit individuals who ...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales tells David Plotz why trust, purpose, and transparency can make the internet — and our institutions — ...
In my opinion, Wikipedia is one of the last good websites on the internet. Outside of the occasional fundraiser, there are no ads, no dark patterns, and no clickbait—it’s just information. Which ...
Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder believes that transparency is the key to survival.
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: ...
Most of the headshots in the fake Wikipedia article represented real revolutionaries but, contrary to the image, none of them ...
More than 40 advocacy organizations are urging Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees to reject what they describe as founder-driven efforts to censor the encyclopedia’s ...
In the coming months, conspiracy videos posted on YouTube will begin to display text boxes called "information cues," which link to Wikipedia and other third-party sources to discredit a hoax. YouTube ...
Vox Day thinks that Wikipedia is the worst. But the things that bug him aren’t the typical complaints you’ll hear about the crowd-sourced encyclopedia—that it’s plagued by trolls, say, or that its ...
Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...