The massive online encyclopedia is driven not by a CEO or board but by 250,000 volunteers who rule by democratic consensus and help fund the group.

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. "We changed the world together," he says of those who contributed to his software development site C2, which spawned the online ...

With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word “truth.” Why should we care? Because ­Wikipedia’s articles ...

An open source application automates the process of downloading and displaying all of Wikipedia on your desktop, a large task that takes more than a day to complete. Dubbed Xowa, the software displays ...

Halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, electroactive polymers -- such subjects are typical fare in graduate-level chemistry courses. But how many classes challenge students to explain the concepts to the ...

Most everyone on the Internet reads Wikipedia, whether they rely on it or not, but few understand how wikis work or who owns the content. Understanding content ownership is important, because so many ...

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with sociologist Dr. Francesca Tripodi about her recent study looking at the gender bias on Wikipedia and who gets to be "notable." On Wikipedia, gender inequality is ...