With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

Jim Pettiward explains the origin, meaning and use of the word 'wiki' and one of its best known derivatives, 'Wikipedia'. Click below to hear his explanation: Jimmy Wales, Head of Wikipedia 'Wiki' – W ...

Wikipedia is one of the internet’s last bastions of freely accessible public information, and since it’s relatively unspoiled by the type of polarization common on social media it can feel refreshing ...

Wikipedia is 25. Founded in 2001, this community contributor-driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and ...

Wikipedia turns 15 on Friday. A key element in its creators’ vision of a user-generated online encyclopedia was to make it a repository of information serving audiences in multiple languages. The ...