Wikipedia is cracking down on Wiki-PR, a company that gets paid to write and edit posts on the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. “Sockpuppetry” — or using false user accounts to post and edit on ...

When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration. The article focused on polygamy, ...

WASHINGTON — This is what passes for an extreme makeover in Washington: A summer intern for seven-term Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) altered the congressman’s profile on the Wikipedia website to ...

This summer has been filled with tales of odd, and at times shameful, Wikipedia edits coming from congressional IP addresses thanks to the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot that ...

A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity) But as part of my research in producing Print Wikipedia, I ...

The innovative online user-written encyclopedia Wikipedia is growing up, and with its growth comes a massive chan ge to how it operates. Back in its early days, Wikipedia could be edited by anyone.

The Anti-Defamation League has paused a project in which its staff members edited Wikipedia using pseudonyms after coming under fire from Wikipedia editors for potentially violating rules regarding ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More One of the world’s most popular sites just turned on mobile editing. Good ...

With 15 percent of users accessing the online encyclopedia from their cell phones, the site decided to offer the option of editing on the go. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...

Wikipedia is the seventh most-popular website on the Internet and is the web’s most popular and largest reference resource. Many instructors decry student reliance on this online encyclopedia open to ...

(RNS) When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration. The article focused on ...