Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

Wikipedia, the beloved online encyclopedia, has debated for a while on how to handle the use of large language models (LLMs) in articles. Now, the practice is officially banned, save for a few ...

Wikipedia is the latest platform to turn your digital habits into a glossy year-end recap, rolling out a personalized “Wrapped”-style feature inside its mobile app that tallies what you have been ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...