TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

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 knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

For better and worse, Wikipedia is one of the places most of us go to when we want definitive information on a topic. But a recent scandal is highlighting one of the major pitfalls of the platform: ...

In the internet age, when we face a language barrier, there are a host of internet resources to solve it: things like translation apps, dictionary websites, versions of Wikipedia in other languages, ...

As of August 2025, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has 343 active language versions, including English and Japanese. Articles written in many languages are primarily about nations, with articles on ...

On January 15, 2016, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia ...

And, India is already an important part of Wikipedia in more ways than one. Within hours of the shooting in Texas, the Wikipedia page of the Robb elementary school in Uvalde saw 765 edits coming from ...

People in China are no longer able to access any Wikipedia pages from within the country — with all language editions reportedly being blocked by the Chinese government. It appears that China has been ...

Wikipedia turns 15 on Friday. A key element in its creators’ vision of a user-generated online encyclopedia was to make it a repository of information serving audiences in multiple languages. The ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.

The country's decision to block the Uzbek-language wiki may be more about showmanship and nationalism than controlling information. I have a suspicion that what prompted the Wikipedia ban at the end ...