Wikipedia has a serious problem. For over a year, I’ve reported on how the most sensitive topics on the site have been captured by ideological editors and special interests. If Wikipedia were just a ...

Not everyone who strives to navigate the internet without being tracked is up to no good. This is the underlying premise of a qualitative study led by a trio of Drexel University researchers, who set ...

Sick of anonymous users screwing up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital ...

Thanks to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, every person can play the part of a scholar and edit articles that paint an unflattering light. A new Web site, wikiscanner.virgil.gr, known as WikiScanner ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated on Wednesday to report that the Durham city attorney’s letter was sent to the wrong postal address and to include comments from a Wikipedia spokesperson. At the ...

A mini Wikipedia globe at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 23, 2009. (Lane Hartwell, http://fetching.net/, on behalf of the ...