Earlier this week at South by Southwest, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video site will use excerpts from Wikipedia to counteract videos promoting conspiracy theories. This new feature ...

Wikipedia is a great idea, and increasingly it is establishing itself as a credible source of information on an astonishingly wide array of topics. Most people use it as a quick reference tool, and it ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

Wikipedia’s just announced plans to restrict the editing of some of its articles. Under the new system, any changes made to pages of still-living people will have to be approved by an “experienced ...

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 ...