Alongside the likes of Google, Wikipedia is one of the most famous names on the internet. If users want to search for ...

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. "We changed the world together," he says of those who contributed to his software development site C2, which spawned the online ...

Most everyone on the Internet reads Wikipedia, whether they rely on it or not, but few understand how wikis work or who owns the content. Understanding content ownership is important, because so many ...

An open source application automates the process of downloading and displaying all of Wikipedia on your desktop, a large task that takes more than a day to complete. Dubbed Xowa, the software displays ...

With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word “truth.” Why should we care? Because ­Wikipedia’s articles ...

In my opinion, Wikipedia is one of the last good websites on the internet. Outside of the occasional fundraiser, there are no ads, no dark patterns, and no clickbait—it’s just information. Which ...

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards ...

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales tells David Plotz why trust, purpose, and transparency can make the internet — and our institutions — ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. You have likely encountered them before: the banner ads on English Wikipedia that encourage you to donate.