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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Over the next few days, Wikipedia will be getting a substantial face ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

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 ...

The founder of Wikipedia looks back at how things have changed on the web, and what's stayed the same. Reading time 6 minutes Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back ...