Wikimedia Foundation has announced a new project that proposes a new way to generate encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion. Abstract Wikipedia will allow more contributors and more readers to ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In the aftermath of Monday’s mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, which left ...

Wikipedia has been a fantastic resource for Google (the world's best encyclopedia providing immediate information on almost every conceivable search topic in the first few results is a very nice ...

The nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia built by volunteers, is getting its largest donation -- $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award, which will ...

Apparel giant The North Face apparently resorted to some less-than-scrupulous tactics to ensure its gear stood out in search results. The Wikimedia Foundation reported that The North Face and its ad ...

It goes something like this: A CEO or executive discovers a competitor’s Wiki page because it appears very prominently in Google searches, so they want one too, naturally. The first thought is to have ...

Wikipedia opened an office in India, its first outside the U.S., to better reach the country’s 1.2 billion people after the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries added readers ...

British visitors to the website during the blackout on Wednesday rose from an average of 5.6 million to 5.8 million, according to independent figures. The extra traffic made Wikipedia the eighth most ...