One measure of Wikipedia’s enormous importance is that nary a day passes without someone publicly complaining about it. Today it’s the authors of Web comic strips that have seen Wikipedia entries ...

A new web project turns Wikipedia into a Windows XP-style desktop, making categories, articles, and Wikimedia Commons feel ...

The free MediaWiki software is best known for powering Wikipedia, but you don't have to be writing an encyclopedia to put it to good use. Extend, skin, and customize MediaWiki to create any kind of ...

I can’t say I’ve ever thought while browsing the Internet, “You know what could use its own web series? Wikipedia. That'd be amazing” — but now that someone has actually created a web series for ...

As long as it applies the "nofollow" tag to the sites that it links to, certainly. To explain: Google, and other major search engines, tend to rank sites more highly if lots of other sites, or highly ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica finally threw in the towel. In March 2012, after 244 years, the staple reference source of libraries and households ceased publishing its 32 dusty volumes. (It survives in ...

Leopard users get the added bonus of Wikipedia as part of the dictionary app. They're also getting Web history search via Spotlight. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

The English version of Wikipedia, the online reference resource that anyone can edit, now contains almost 2.2 million articles. The French version has just over 600,000, the Polish about 450,000. On ...

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites ...