If you clicked on a Wikipedia article this year, you contributed to the estimated 2.4 billion hours spent reading ...

For those of you who — like myself — learn a lot of what you know from reading articles on Wikipedia, you’re going to have to Google a little bit harder for 24 hours on Wednesday. The Washington Post ...

Did you know it’s reached the moon, makes an update every second, and made its billionth edit last week? First, the details you probably know: Wikipedia is 20 years old and was launched by Jimmy Wales ...

Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than six million articles. The feat, which comes roughly 19 years after ...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:24:51 GMT — NEW YORK (AP) â?? Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its ...

People have made a big deal about the supposed decline of Wikipedia based on the fall in active editors on the English site from more than 51,000 in 2007 to 32,000 this year. Is this the beginning of ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. While Wikipedia is not generally thought of as a source for breaking news, it is enjoying a prolonged period of ...

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 ...

On its 15th birthday, Wikipedia, the free-access web encyclopedia with over 38 million articles in 250 different languages, is the world's largest single repository of human knowledge. English ...

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