A decade ago professors complained of a growing “epidemic” in education: Wikipedia. Students were citing it in papers, while educators largely laughed it off as inaccurate and saw their students as ...

Several years ago I started asking students in my composition classes to compose entries for Wikipedia. Most of my students were familiar with Wikipedia as the most popular link at the top of a Web ...

The use of wikis, easy-share Web sites that allow multiple users to add and edit content, has exploded over the last decade from intranet sites with few users to massive collaborative, community Web ...

Wikipedia, which turned 20 this month, is big. Really big. It’s read 8,000 times per second and visited more times per month than Netflix or Instagram. We’re so used to seeing it at the top of Google ...

Most people know bad AI writing when they see it. But unless you’re a closeted copy editor, it’s surprisingly hard to put your finger on exactly why AI writing sucks. Now, Wikipedia’s editor team has ...

When she’s not working in a physics lab, one London researcher is making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she’s doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. Jess Wade has ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. A new study finding that Irish High Court judges were influenced by the existence and specific language of ...

We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became ...