We recently published a bit of a rant about many Wikipedia science entries leaving a lot to be desired. In response, we were informed that an effort to improve that situation was already brewing. In ...

Marie Curie is one of the most famous women in science. But her first page on Wikipedia was shared with her husband — until someone pointed out that, perhaps, her scientific contributions were notable ...

Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years. By Maya Salam You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines.

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. It was 2004, when the site was just three years old, and its information about the government of his home nation of Trinidad and Tobago was a ...

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I would say that I always take everything in Wikipedia with a grain of salt, and only use it for fact checking or answering a quick question at the dinner table. For scientific research, Wikipedia ...

Wikipedia logos at a Wikimedia conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2005. (Boris Roessler/European Pressphoto Agency) It’s fun to imagine what would have happened if Alexander the Great had the chance ...

The time had come to choose a major at Caltech, and Alice Michel had a notion that intrigued her. But when she looked it up on Wikipedia, what she got was a whole lot of gobbledygook. It was, she ...

Acid rain is a popular term referring to the deposition of wet poo and cats. No, not really. But that’s what people looking at Wikipedia’s article on acid rain could have read on December 1, 2011. An ...

Between 7 and 11% of prominent chemists, both living and dead, are women. That’s according to the worldview represented on Wikipedia, anyway. Compared with employment and degree statistics for ...