Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal ...

While most college professors have long since dismissed Wikipedia as an inaccurate source of information, one is standing up for it. A new peer-reviewed study from Brigham Young University says ...

An ongoing study by University of Minnesota researchers has revealed that only one-tenth of 1 percent of Wikipedia users account for nearly half the content value of the free online encyclopedia, as ...

Judges are more likely to cite legal cases in their decisions for which there's a Wikipedia article. Maynooth University law students wrote new articles for the study. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Wikipedia might be the people’s encyclopedia, but it turns out it’s being run by the one percent — of users, that is. A detailed new study at Purdue University reviews Wikipedia edits from 2001 to ...

Hey teachers: Leave those kids alone! Or at least stop telling them not to use Wikipedia in their homework assignments, since you're all doing it, too. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

Many Wikipedia entries about prescription medications aren't up-to-date and accurate, a new study contends. Wikipedia, an online, self-described "free-content encyclopedia," depends on the continuous ...