Each summer, the staff of Wikipedia get together with their most fanatical contributors for a five-day conference called Wikimania, a sort of Wrestlemania for the brainy and pedantic. There is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some professors now assign Wikipedia editing as an alternative to the traditional research paper. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via ...

Speaking in tongues: there is a project called Wikimedia 2030, which is trying to envisage and prepare for the world 12 years hence, and how we interact with the internet (Getty) Here’s what it has to ...

The pages are made by lots of people writing together. The idea is that by using lots of different people's brainpower and expertise, you can make a far bigger encyclopedia, and keep it up-to-date ...