The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish ...

It might be an anachronistic and naive throwback to a more idealistic time, but it's still very much a part of the online information ecosystem.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia featuring openly editable content created and sourced by users from around the world. Wikipedia is a volunteer service, powered and maintained by a full-time ...

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: 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”?

A recent study suggests that the news media sources cited across the English version of Wikipedia have a moderate but consistent liberal bias. This pattern appears to persist even when the factual ...