On the 30th anniversary of the first 'wiki', we spoke with its creator about the invention that so irritates technopopulists. "Wikipedia is the technology that has most helped world peace". If you are ...

First appearing in 1995, the “wiki” approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...

Xikipedia is an experiment in user experience: Wikipedia content formatted into an infinite-scroll mobile-friendly feed. So you can doomscroll it. It was created by lyra rebane and the source code is ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. You have likely encountered them before: the banner ads on English Wikipedia that encourage you to donate.