Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal ...

While most college professors have long since dismissed Wikipedia as an inaccurate source of information, one is standing up for it. A new peer-reviewed study from Brigham Young University says ...

An ongoing study by University of Minnesota researchers has revealed that only one-tenth of 1 percent of Wikipedia users account for nearly half the content value of the free online encyclopedia, as ...

It's not just students and internet debaters who lean on Wikipedia in a pinch. MIT CSAIL researchers have conducted a study revealing that Wikipedia can influence the legal decisions of judges when ...

Wikipedia was under siege recently from a right-wing campaign focused on its article about recessions. Isn’t it convenient, these critics said, that the online encyclopaedia does not clearly define a ...

Wikipedia may be able to help public health officials with disease surveillance, according to a new study published this month by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I thought the folks at ...

Based on a study of observable changes author-users made to three Wikipedia articles, this article contends that Wikipedia supports notions of revision, collaboration, and authority that writing ...