Manipulating Wikipedia is all the rage these days. Companies, governments and even presidential candidates reportedly do it. Yet we sleep well at night because we trust Wikipedia’s editors will ...

Commentary: Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary today. The free encyclopedia may not be exciting, but its neutral, volunteer-driven content is incredibly valuable. Kent was a senior managing ...

Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Supported by By Jon Gertner In early 2021 ...

Is Wikipedia’s fundraising truly necessary? You’ve likely encountered that pop-up on Wikipedia asking for donations, claiming that without your support, they might struggle to keep the site running.

For a few minutes near the end of his first presidential debate, Mike Bloomberg was dead. At 9:38 p.m. Eastern time, a Wikipedia user named DQUACK02 added some text to the Wikipedia page for the ...

On the Friday, November 28, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Wikipedia began as an idea for open knowledge. Despite challenges, its team of volunteers continues to work to build trust one article ...

Vice President JD Vance boards Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland en route to Rome, Italy, April 17, 2025. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Wikipedia has become a powerful weapon in the left’s ...

"Meanwhile, during that same 25-year period, Wikipedia has gone from being kind of a joke to one of the few things people trust," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose new book The Seven Rules of ...

Amid a pandemic and QAnon conspiracies, this librarian is focused on facts. By Mary Mann Ms. Mann is a librarian and a writer. It started with my spice cabinet. I’d been in a quarantine cooking rut, ...