Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia featuring openly editable content created and sourced by users from around the world. Wikipedia is a volunteer service, powered and maintained by a full-time ...

Chances are you’ve come across Wikipedia if you ever used the internet. The online encyclopedia seems to have information on just about everything in existence. If you want to get a general sense of ...

What is Wikipedia going to look like 20 years from now? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales built his online encyclopedia on a foundation of trust. His new book, “The Seven Rules of Trust ...

Its titular appositive is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” and its mission statement says it exists “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational ...

The massive online encyclopedia is driven not by a CEO or board but by 250,000 volunteers who rule by democratic consensus and help fund the group.

Wikipedia, the 21-year-old "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," went from being a weird online experiment to a mainstay of the modern internet with astonishing speed. Even as the rest of the ...

What fascinates me about Wikipedia is not that it exists, per se, even though it is obviously extraordinary that it does. Nor is it the ever-roiling “talk” pages, with their meta-tail-wagging ...

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is a master communicator and salesman. The quality of the product that he touts, however, does not match the quality of his orations. In a Wall Street Journal e-mail ...

Each summer, the staff of Wikipedia get together with their most fanatical contributors for a five-day conference called Wikimania, a sort of Wrestlemania for the brainy and pedantic. There is ...

The White House has threatened Wikipedia's non-profit status, and Elon Musk has called for it to be defunded. NPR's Bobby Allyn speaks with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about the attacks.

The pages are made by lots of people writing together. The idea is that by using lots of different people's brainpower and expertise, you can make a far bigger encyclopedia, and keep it up-to-date ...