Only eight years old, Wikipedia, ‘the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit’ already has more than three million articles in English alone, covering nearly all major companies and a lot of minor ones ...

Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is based on the following features of Wikipedia ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Earlier this week, Wikimedia launched a new tool to make books out of Wikipedia articles. Earlier this week, ...

Check the Microsoft entry on Wikipedia at some point in the past and you might have learned that the company's name is Microshaft, its products are evil and its logo is a kitten. Similarly, you may ...

It can be useful, while studying any topic, to get an overview of when major events happened relative to each other. History textbooks commonly use a timeline for this—a chronological chart that shows ...

Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked – all three factors contribute to ...