2006: The millionth entry in the English-language Wikipedia is created. Since the entries for “million,” “Million Dollar Baby” and “Million Man March” had been built up in the early years of the ...

If you haven't heard the news yet, the English-language version of Wikipedia -- all 3.8 million articles -- will be blacked out from 10pm ET tonight until 10pm on Wednesday night. During this 24-hour ...

When the Ebola pandemic erupted in West Africa in 2014, the English-language Wikipedia articles on Ebola were overhauled and versions were created or updated in more than 100 other languages. These ...

It’s been a long time coming, but the Wikimedia Foundation is finally on the cusp of rolling out its visual ‘WYSIWYG‘ editor for all Wikipedia users. Back in December, Wikimedia explained why, after ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Wikipedia will be shutting down all its English-language sites for a full 24 hours in protest of both SOPA and ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The timeline below shows the results of processing the entire English ...