The Internet has given society so much. We can find out whatever information we need, share news with friends in an instant and even keep up with an onslaught of cute animal photos (yeah, we both know ...

Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like ...

Overview: Open-source monitoring supports fast issue detection and strengthens performance across digital systems.Metrics, ...

Wikipedia has had a rough year, and Middlebury College students are only its latest casualties. History professors at Middlebury recently banned citing the online encyclopedia as a research source.

Wikipedia's rapid response to its problems begs a serious question. Do open source projects naturally respond faster to pressure than proprietary software companies? For those who didn't follow the ...

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 ...

It might seem like common sense to exclude Wikipedia from the list of great science resources, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like you to reconsider that notion. A ...

You may have heard of open source software before, but you likely have not considered just how widespread it is. Android, for example -- which is still the most prevalent mobile operating system ...