Wikipedia will share content with AI firms in new licensing deals

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, ...

Wikipedia’s 25 most popular entries of all time

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Is Wikipedia a good source? When to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...
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Elon Musk Is Using Wikipedia to Determine Which Media Outlets are ‘Government Funded’

The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets should get the new “Government Funded Media” label. Reading time 3 minutes Twitter CEO Elon Musk ...
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Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it

Some professors now assign Wikipedia editing as an alternative to the traditional research paper. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you ...