The online encyclopedia was founded almost 25 years ago by Jimmy Wales, who at the time was working on an expert-led project ...

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has rejected claims by Elon Musk that the online encyclopedia has a left-wing bias, describing ...

The space rock has actually been hanging around Earth for 60 years, but no-one has noticed it before... until now.

Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human ...

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Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...