The world’s largest online encyclopedia mirrors society’s bias towards male achievements. Employers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine can help to change that. Francesca ...

Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Supported by By Jon Gertner In early 2021 ...

Wikipedia Has a Diversity Problem, But These Librarians Want to Help Wikipedia's mission is to be an open-access source of information, but its editors and page topics have been criticized for a lack ...

The global news cycle is fraught with misinformation and many members of the public feel wary of media outlets. Raju Narisetti thinks Wikipedia could be a solution to the problem, and he told the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Plenty of prominent scientists have Wikipedia pages. But while ...

In 2020, the Wikipedia community was engulfed in scandal when it came out that a US teen had written 27,000 entries in a language they didn’t speak. The episode was a reminder that the online ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be useful for the verification process used by Wikipedia contributors and editors, according to a new study published last week in the peer-reviewed scientific ...

Wikipedia is the electronic elephant in the classroom. I recently conducted a straw poll among students I knew. The question was simple: What do you your teachers tell you about Wikipedia in school?

Google is helping the Wikimedia Foundation achieve its goal of making Wikipedia articles available in a lot more languages. The Foundation has added Google Translate to its content translation tool, ...

WIKIPEDIA, the world's largest online encyclopedia, should have an important role in the fight back against "post factual politics" that led to the racist and xenophobic rhetoric of the Leave campaign ...

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, puts banners at the top of certain articles to alert the reader to potential issues. Most templates remain humble Wikipedia tools for ...

Like so much else, Wikipedia has been the site of several battles in the overall culture war. In August, Republican representatives James Comer and Nancy Mace called for a probe into the free ...