Alongside the likes of Google, Wikipedia is one of the most famous names on the internet. If users want to search for ...

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. "We changed the world together," he says of those who contributed to his software development site C2, which spawned the online ...

Most everyone on the Internet reads Wikipedia, whether they rely on it or not, but few understand how wikis work or who owns the content. Understanding content ownership is important, because so many ...

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 ...

Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia's co-founder, ...

An open source application automates the process of downloading and displaying all of Wikipedia on your desktop, a large task that takes more than a day to complete. Dubbed Xowa, the software displays ...

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards ...