Depending on what day you search, Wikipedia may say global warming is "a sham" or that there is "a consensus view that it is man-made." That kind of flux isn't unusual: Wikipedia pages on hot-button ...

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

The time had come to choose a major at Caltech, and Alice Michel had a notion that intrigued her. But when she looked it up on Wikipedia, what she got was a whole lot of gobbledygook. It was, she ...

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to fix a typo, add a citation or create a whole new article on the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, now’s your chance. In celebration of Science Literacy ...

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

Wikipedia's advocates like to tout its dynamic nature: volunteers can quickly respond to new developments and errors in the collaborative online encyclopedia by adding or changing entries themselves.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Wikipedia may represent the world's most popular online encyclopedia, but its crowd-sourced ...

Several months ago, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), an alternative medicine non-profit, began a petition on Change.org asking Wikipedia to “create and enforce new policies ...

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