The Internet has been used as a tool for sharing information since its inception. Over the past few years, “wiki” technology has been introduced as a way to allow individuals to modify and contribute ...

O ver at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop, but it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

As I continue to research and write my upcoming book on wikis, I keep hearing one word over and over again. That word is "BUT" (complete with all-caps), as in, "I would like to use a wiki, BUT " or ...

Many in the academic world cast suspicious glares on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that users edit at will. But some Ohio State professors have embraced the technology and philosophy of the wiki.

Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The technology ...

Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman (DoubleClick's former CEO and former CTO, respectively) and Eliot Horowitz founded ShopWiki in New York City last year with the goal of “indexing everything that can be ...

Instructional-technology coach Kristin Hokanson is hooked on wikis. Hokanson counts at least 40 wikis, or collaborative Web sites, that she either designed or participates in. She uses them to post ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What ...

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 ...