A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran an editors' note detailing a problem with one of the sources in the article.

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish ...

It might seem like common sense to exclude Wikipedia from the list of great science resources, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like you to reconsider that notion. A ...

Each time a volunteer editor adds a new fact to one of Wikipedia's over 44 million articles, they're required to cite where they learned it. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the ...

A recent study suggests that the news media sources cited across the English version of Wikipedia have a moderate but consistent liberal bias. This pattern appears to persist even when the factual ...