Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first ...

For the average internet user, Wikipedia operates in the background, its 44 million entries serving as a priceless resource, rarely thought of until you need to know the capital of Azerbaijan. This ...

Wikipedia has millions of articles across an array of languages, so it often struggles with fixing the volume of broken links. The Internet Archive is helping to solve this issue. While it may often ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy ...

The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising articles to reflect a ...

As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about Wikipedia usage in February 2007. Education level ...

Wikipedia is probably a regular part of your online life. And if you own a smartphone, you can take advantage of apps and extensions that give you access to its vast repository even when you’re ...

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 ...

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I know it doesn't feel like it now, but please believe me: There are worse things than losing access to Wikipedia — even temporarily. For example, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (aka H.R.3261) ...