Select media stakeholders, yesterday, gathered at the Lagos state chamber of Commerce and industries, Ikeja to brainstorm on how to arrest the wave of misinformation in the country. The event, ...

Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like ...

Wikipedia's rapid response to its problems begs a serious question. Do open source projects naturally respond faster to pressure than proprietary software companies? For those who didn't follow the ...

It might seem like common sense to exclude Wikipedia from the list of great science resources, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like you to reconsider that notion. A ...

Wikipedia has had a rough year, and Middlebury College students are only its latest casualties. History professors at Middlebury recently banned citing the online encyclopedia as a research source.

I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have ...

The Internet has given society so much. We can find out whatever information we need, share news with friends in an instant and even keep up with an onslaught of cute animal photos (yeah, we both know ...

Motivation for developing open-source software can be puzzling, but it shares knowledge and pools resources The term ‘open source’ comes from computer programming. It refers to a computer program that ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

During a recent event titled “Professional meeting on the application of Wikipedia tactics in communications”, held at Iran’s Ministry of Culture, a female audience member asked: “So as Wikipedia, or ...