FiveThirtyEight put together a neato chart of the 100 most edited Wikipedia articles—the segments of human life that, for some reason or other, have inspired the most meticulous care, the most nitpicking, the most sabotage. It's really interesting to see what stuff you guys choose to obsessively argue about. » 5/30/14 7:45pm 5/30/14 7:45pm

Adrianne Wadewitz, an important and rare figure in the world of Wikipedia editors and a scholar of 18th-century British literature, died earlier this month from head injuries sustained during a rock climbing fall. According to Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wadewitz – who worked on the… » 4/18/14 7:15pm 4/18/14 7:15pm

All the way back in 1842, when humans still spent all their time huddled around in the dark, gnawing on potatoes and reveling in abject confusion (basically), brilliant genius Ada Lovelace penned the world's first computer program. Nowadays, Ada Lovelace is a women-in-STEM hero; annually, we honor her and celebrate… » 10/11/13 12:30pm 10/11/13 12:30pm

Wikipedia's boy's club problem is a vicious cycle; 87 percent of the site's editors are men, so the site's content skews very dude (and sometimes very anti-woman.) » 8/23/13 5:40pm 8/23/13 5:40pm

If you go to Wikipedia's page for American Novelists, you might notice something strange: Of the first 100 authors listed, only a small handful of them are women. You could potentially blame this on the fact that there simply are more famous male authors than there are female (a-whole-nother can of worms), but the… » 4/25/13 3:30pm 4/25/13 3:30pm

Announcement, announcement: I've found the best thing on the internet. I know you weren't expecting this today, a day that started like any other for you, but facts are facts and don't try to fight it because today is the day you discover Wikipedia's List of animals with fraudulent diplomas. Rejoice! » 10/17/12 10:25am 10/17/12 10:25am

Studies have shown that the Wikipedia editor gender gap — women make up only 13 percent of the site's contributors, according to a 2011 New York Times survey, and even less according to the most recent Wikipedia Editor Survey — directly influences the lack of notable women with well-researched biographies (or often… » 9/24/12 1:45pm 9/24/12 1:45pm

Alas, yet another sign that yet another era is ending. The New York Times is reporting that after 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. While it's easy to imagine that we'll survive just fine without it—in this age of Wiki everything—we also know that life will never be the same. Now… » 3/13/12 9:00pm 3/13/12 9:00pm

Earlier this year, we learned that men greatly outnumbered women among Wikipedia editors. But now the site's article on men's rights has been through a controversial edit, and some men are calling Wikipedia "feminist propaganda." » 10/18/11 2:50pm 10/18/11 2:50pm

Just 15% of Wikipedia contributors are women — and while this may be why Sex and the City gets a shorter entry than The Sopranos (not that we object to that), it has more important implications too. » 1/31/11 12:12pm 1/31/11 12:12pm

Someone has made some unflattering edits to Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Zolciak's Wikipedia page, among them, the new version claims Kim's occupation is "gold digger" and "professional mistress," and that she was born in Trailer Park, Whitetrashville. » 11/05/09 6:00pm 11/05/09 6:00pm

Last night on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert demonstrated his ability to alter reality via Wikipedia, revealing a nasty incident in Conan's Wikipedia past involving a canoe paddle. Then Conan complained that he wasn't asked to be on A Colbert Christmas and an impromptu Christmas special broke out,… » 12/09/08 4:20pm 12/09/08 4:20pm

To heck with Descartes: nowadays, it's more like, "I am on Wikipedia, therefore I am." So how is it then that the most topical and relevant of all neologisms, "Recessionista," does not have its own Wikipedia entry? In our estimation, the omission of this handy "Recession-Fashionista" hybrid from our virtual Herodotus… » 10/27/08 6:40pm 10/27/08 6:40pm

Congrats to ANTM Cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson! She's the first plus-size woman to win the the grand prize in Top. Model. History. But our girl is going to need a skin thicker than her (normal-sized) waistline, especially after one observant reader pointed out that her Wikipedia page was hacked last night by… » 5/15/08 9:45am 5/15/08 9:45am