The Internet has given society so much. We can find out whatever information we need, share news with friends in an instant and even keep up with an onslaught of cute animal photos (yeah, we both know ...

Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like ...

Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google AI overviews to get ...

We are happy to announce that 29 projects are selected for NGI Zero Commons Fund sixth open call. We congratulate the ...

Joplin is a powerful open-source note-taking and to-do application available on Android (as well as Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS). It uses Markdown for notes and supports attachments, tags, ...

The Wikimedia Foundation selected multidisciplinary firm Snøhetta to develop the new brand identity for Wikipedia, its free open platform. Aiming to create visuals that push forward Wikimedia’s ...

Wikipedia has had a rough year, and Middlebury College students are only its latest casualties. History professors at Middlebury recently banned citing the online encyclopedia as a research source.

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia describes plagiarism as “the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or ...

Wikipedia's rapid response to its problems begs a serious question. Do open source projects naturally respond faster to pressure than proprietary software companies? For those who didn't follow the ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --Elon Musk-owned xAI plans to launch a challenger to Wikipedia called "Grokipedia" that he said will be a big improvement over the popular open-source website. The site will be powered ...

You may think that Windows represents the exact opposite of open source, but Microsoft’s ex-CEO Steve Ballmer begs to differ. One of Microsoft’s biggest mistakes, he told an audience at Oxford ...

Elon Musk has confirmed Grokipedia, xAI’s new knowledge platform. The early beta Version 0.1 launches in two weeks. Aimed as an open-source, truth-focused encyclopedia, it may use AI to verify content ...