Simply stated: according to cyberlaw professor Eric Goldman, Wikipedia will fail. According to Ars Technica, Goldman fancies Wikipedia, but thinks that the site contains the "seeds of its own ...

You joke, but that's important. Any discussion of how well or how bad Wikipedia does has to be in comparison to other encyclopedias. Society relies on annecdotes, hearsay, and single sources for their ...

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia in human history, with millions of articles written by thousands of volunteers across the globe. While anyone can edit Wikipedia and contribute to the ...

We've heard in recent months that Wikipedia is a fast and reliable source of information about breaking news. What better way to test that theory than in Monday's reports about who fathered the late ...

The site was offline for approximately two hours Wednesday afternoon, between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. ET. While the problem was quickly resolved, according to the blog, it took an hour to restore access to ...

Probably. But most often wikipedia just contains the theory, straight out of a textbook. Which is fine, but for anyone not actually studying the field (e.g. most people) it's worthless. And it's a ...