This week, two of our most essential online institutions reckoned with major shifts in the operation and governance of the ...

Wikipedia has lost its High Court challenge against the Online Safety Act – but what does that actually mean? The act ...

The U.K. is implementing its so-called Online Safety Act, a legal smorgasbord of controls, restrictions, regulations and censorious follies of the kind likely to make quick fools of the censors. The ...

Wikipedia is the crown jewel of the old internet. An encyclopaedia for the digital age, it was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and has since been the go-to website for anyone ...

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

British rocker Terry "Superlungs" Reid passed away at 75 after a battle with cancer (via The Guardian). He never topped the charts, but you knew Reid's work when you heard it. Reid was looked up to by ...

The Wikipedia entry on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, for example, cites hard-to-find titles, says Internet Archive director of partnerships Wendy Hanamura.

At Wikipedia, strict standards are the norm. And Wikipedia’s lack of advertising is almost more unusual. Most major internet sites like Facebook and Google make money by showing you advertisements.

What's more, Wikipedia is a community-edited entity that exists on the Internet, and as with any website, is subject to abuse.

Curious internet users looked at ChatGPT’s Wikipedia page more than any other English article on the open-source online encyclopedia website this year, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

The following year, Wales also stated, “We help the internet not suck.” Wikipedia now has versions in 334 languages and a total of more than 61 million articles.

The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Donald Trump: “Of course ...