The Internet has given society so much. We can find out whatever information we need, share news with friends in an instant and even keep up with an onslaught of cute animal photos (yeah, we both know ...

Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like ...

Wikipedia's rapid response to its problems begs a serious question. Do open source projects naturally respond faster to pressure than proprietary software companies? For those who didn't follow the ...

Grokipedia copies Wikipedia’s format, but loose fact-checking and weak citations leave many of its claims unreliable.

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

You may have heard of open source software before, but you likely have not considered just how widespread it is. Android, for example -- which is still the most prevalent mobile operating system ...