The massive online encyclopedia is driven not by a CEO or board but by 250,000 volunteers who rule by democratic consensus and help fund the group.

The idea is that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to tap into Wikipedia's data firehose without clogging its ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has redesigned its app for iOS and Android, with new features including editing and saving pages for offline reading. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

San Francisco [US], March 8 (ANI): The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, on this International Women's Day, has announced the launch of its "Wikipedia Needs More Women" ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based projects, announced this morning that it’s now implementing HTTPS by default across all its sites in order to encrypt ...

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation and written and edited by volunteers from around the world. An article on the English version of Wikipedia, 'A lawsuit between the ...

Two artists attempted to create a performance art piece by establishing a Wikipedia entry entitled "Wikipedia Art," which could then be freely edited and "transformed" by anyone choosing to do so. The ...

Today the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, is filing suit against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice of the ...

WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...

So, while the Wikimedia Foundation may not be building a general web search engine, turning Wikipedia itself into a search engine that reduces reliance on traditional search engines could have a ...

Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record ...