First appearing in 1995, the “wiki” approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the ...
On the 30th anniversary of the first 'wiki', we spoke with its creator about the invention that so irritates technopopulists. "Wikipedia is the technology that has most helped world peace". If you are ...
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Xikipedia is an experiment in user experience: Wikipedia content formatted into an infinite-scroll mobile-friendly feed. So ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online ...
In its quest for Internet dominance, Google has scooped up JotSpot, a startup focused on using Wiki technology for business workgroups. While JotSpot was focused on business users, the Googlization of ...