Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

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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 ...

Last week Encyclopedia Britannica announced it would stop publishing print editions and go completely digital. The company's decision to halt the presses after 244 years is a clear sign of the ...

The next time somebody famous dies, head to Wikipedia. It’s likely that the entry for that individual will have already been updated to acknowledge the death. It’s a small example of the big success o ...

"I'm not sure anybody's going to trust an encyclopedia that has a thumb on the scales," Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told ...

For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a ...

A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity) But as part of my research in producing Print Wikipedia, I ...