"I'm not sure anybody's going to trust an encyclopedia that has a thumb on the scales," Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told The Verge.

Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder believes that transparency is the key to survival.

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales tells David Plotz why trust, purpose, and transparency can make the internet — and our institutions — ...

More than 40 advocacy organizations are urging Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees to reject what they describe as founder-driven efforts to censor the encyclopedia’s ...

When I first meet someone, I can often tell if they’ve taken the time to Google my name and read my Wikipedia entry. Having a Wikipedia page devoted to you is an unsettling experience for anyone: ...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales expressed skepticism about Elon Musk's AI-powered Grokipedia, citing concerns over AI ...

In the coming months, conspiracy videos posted on YouTube will begin to display text boxes called "information cues," which link to Wikipedia and other third-party sources to discredit a hoax. YouTube ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...