But recently, the site has become a favorite target of Elon Musk, congressional Republicans and right-wing influencers, who ...

These criticisms are a major subject in a new interview with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, published today in The New ...

Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," went from being a weird online experiment 21 years ago to one of the mainstays of the modern internet with astonishing speed. Even more ...

On January 15, 2010, the world's sixth most-popular Web site, a collaborative online encyclopedia known across the world as Wikipedia, turned nine years old. That same day, Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy ...

Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools. Jimmy Wales co-founded ...

Following in the footsteps of Tim Berners-Lee and others, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is auctioning off a piece of internet history. Starting today, you can bid in a Christie’s auction to obtain ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Back in January 2001, Wikipedia’s co-founder typed the words “Hello, World!” into the new internet ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been pounded in recent days as a spurned girlfriend leaked the pair's steamy IM chats, Wales has been accused of editing her Wikipedia entry inappropriately, and a ...

Late in August, Wikipedia announced that it was reining in its freewheeling ways. In several interviews, including many with TIME, officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that manages ...

Wikipedia’s looking for donations again, which means co-founder Jimmy Wales’ “personal appeal”–and face–is back at the top of every Wikipedia page. The Jimmy Wales Mugshot Method (that’s what I’m ...

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