As reports about the first cases of coronavirus started emerging from China, information about the virus – alongside rumours about its origins, virality, and potential lethality – began to spread ...

Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a ...

“This edit was VERY poor,” wrote James Heilman, an emergency room doctor in British Columbia, to a Wikipedia contributor who had made a couple of changes toward the end of the article on the new ...

Malicious hackers have turned to Wikipedia to try to help them catch out PC users. The virus writers created a page on the German Wikipedia that linked to a fake fix for a new version of an old ...

If you see commercial ads the next time you look something up on Wikipedia, it doesn’t mean the online encyclopedia has decided to turn a profit — it possibly means your web browser has been infected ...

An online advocacy group has claimed the government of Iran is blocking access to Wikipedia following unrest over its handling of Covid-19. An activist group said Wikipedia’s Farsi-language website ...

The largest free online encyclopedia said on Friday that as coronavirus (COVID-19) news is piling up, it has seen more than 12,000 edits by thousands of editors on Wikipedia's article about the ...