While crowdsourced information on Wikipedia may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of reliable sources for research, students at the University of California at San Francisco have ...

A Virginia Tech graduate student hit save on her overview of the state workers’ compensation commission one spring day, but before her professor could take a look at it, someone else began deleting ...

But a Monash University study has found that students and ­academics alike are missing a giant opportunity to contribute to world knowledge by shunning the right to edit the world’s sixth most used ...

The most cited source in secondary and higher education student papers is now getting the same kind of plagiarism check those student papers also often get. The non-profit Wikipedia has struck an ...

Mahad's law of molecular vibration, political deception, space psychology, antibiotic use in agriculture. These are just some of the articles that are requested in Wikipedia. position as the top ...

Where are students finding the materials they plagiarize in their papers? According to a new study, WIkipedia tops the list for both secondary and college students. But as a category, encyclopedia ...

Jimmy Wales may be the ‘face’ of Wikipedia, but you may not know that the online encyclopedia also has a co-founder in the form of Larry Sanger, who helped develop the project but left in 2002 shortly ...

Challenging students to draft or enhance Wikipedia entries is an effective way to develop their subject knowledge, research and writing skills, as Adrian Man-Ho Lam explains A course learning goal in ...

Fake news has been, well, in the news a lot lately. But for the world's largest crowdsourced encyclopedia, it's nothing new. "Wikipedia has been dealing with fake news since it started 16 years ago," ...