Wikipedia might seem like a librarian’s nemesis, but the online encyclopedia, its community, and libraries are increasingly working together to provide free and open information to all. Wikipedia ...

If you've ever worried that humanity will ever wipe itself out so completely that there'll be no record of our civilization for aliens to discover, you can now rest (somewhat) easy. Even if we blow ...

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Scientific publisher Elsevier has donated 45 free ScienceDirect accounts to “top Wikipedia editors” to aid them in their work. Michael Eisen, one of the founders of the open access movement, which ...

From its launch in 2001, Wikipedia—the Internet’s hugely popular, user-created free encyclopedia—was viewed with suspicion by reference publishers and librarians. It was unreliable and unsustainable, ...

Karavali Wikimedians, a registered body of Wikipedia writers and editors affiliated to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in the process of setting up a manual library in a city college as a source of ...

What if you could carry the entirety of Wikipedia in your pocket, ready to access without a single bar of Wi-Fi or a hint of cellular signal? Picture a remote classroom in a rural village, a disaster ...

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 ...

A Wikipedia editor who I know, Karen Coyle, recently left the site, finding it an inhospitable place for a woman. It’s nothing new. But considering the cumulative impact of the “encyclopedia that ...