Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. In its current form, the Wikipedia article on the killing of George Floyd describes the event as follows: “On ...

Bobby Shabangu’s election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board marks a historic first for Africa and a decisive step toward ...

February is Black History Month in the US, and in recognition of the underrepresentation of Black figures throughout history — and the importance of visual media in building repositories of knowledge ...

Just as human history is often divided into the eras B.C. and A.D.,it is no longer unreasonable to imagine the Internet’s story split between B.AI. and A.AI. — Before Artificial Intelligence and After ...

What just happened? Wikipedia is the internet's most used collaborative encyclopedia, or - as they like to say - the largest collection of open knowledge in history. Now, an updated design strives to ...

From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise and the future of shared knowledge. Just as human history is often divided ...