Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first ...

For the average internet user, Wikipedia operates in the background, its 44 million entries serving as a priceless resource, rarely thought of until you need to know the capital of Azerbaijan. This ...

Great sci-fi has the gift of extraordinary prescience, but I wasn’t thinking about that when I first read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I was a middle schooler enthralled by Douglas Adams’ ...

The world's biggest websites are calling for a day of dramatic action Wednesday against a piracy-prevention lawsuit that many fear will reshape the Internet as we now know it. Google is the latest ...

Wikipedia has millions of articles across an array of languages, so it often struggles with fixing the volume of broken links. The Internet Archive is helping to solve this issue. While it may often ...

I know it doesn't feel like it now, but please believe me: There are worse things than losing access to Wikipedia — even temporarily. For example, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (aka H.R.3261) ...

Wikipedia, the online reference tool that's allowed countless students to avoid the library, turns 10 today. The free collaborative encyclopedia's growth over the last decade into the fifth most ...

If you haven't heard the news yet, the English-language version of Wikipedia -- all 3.8 million articles -- will be blacked out from 10pm ET tonight until 10pm on Wednesday night. During this 24-hour ...

As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about Wikipedia usage in February 2007. Education level ...

The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising articles to reflect a ...

Wikipedia is probably a regular part of your online life. And if you own a smartphone, you can take advantage of apps and extensions that give you access to its vast repository even when you’re ...