Not everyone who strives to navigate the internet without being tracked is up to no good. This is the underlying premise of a qualitative study led by a trio of Drexel University researchers, who set ...

Wikipedia has a serious problem. For over a year, I’ve reported on how the most sensitive topics on the site have been captured by ideological editors and special interests. If Wikipedia were just a ...

Sick of anonymous users screwing up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital ...

Thanks to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, every person can play the part of a scholar and edit articles that paint an unflattering light. A new Web site, wikiscanner.virgil.gr, known as WikiScanner ...

In June 2020, back when we were all marching the streets in masks and it felt like the world was ending, an anonymous Wikipedia editor started an article called “Thirst trap.” With six sections and 32 ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated on Wednesday to report that the Durham city attorney’s letter was sent to the wrong postal address and to include comments from a Wikipedia spokesperson. At the ...

A mini Wikipedia globe at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 23, 2009. (Lane Hartwell, http://fetching.net/, on behalf of the ...