This week, Wikipedia's highest governing body finalized its decision regarding the Gamergate encyclopedia page—the subject of a fight nearly as intense and long-running as Gamergate itself. Despite the organization's repeated insistence that it is not taking sides in the conflict, it ruled to punish five editors who…

Wikipedia's entry on Muhammad was first published on November 8, 2001. It was eleven sentences long. Over the next few years, several thousand new words were added and edited, but it wasn't until 2005 that an image of Muhammad was attached: A 16th-century painting depicting the Islamic prophet. Two hours later, the…

For nearly as long as the antifeminist culture war known as Gamergate has raged across the internet, a microcosm of the battle has taken place on Wikipedia. Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia's highest court made a…

Across Wikipedia, dozens of articles on sex—from missionary position to mammary intercourse—are adorned by strikingly graphic illustrations from the same mysterious illustrator. Here, we've collected a few of the artist known only as Seedfeeder's greatest works.

At his day job, John Overholt is the curator the Harvard library's collection of early modern books and manuscripts. On Tumblr, he does kind of the same thing, but with Wikipedia articles.

David Slater, the British nature photographer whose camera equipment was stolen by a selfie-mad macaque in 2011, has made repeated attempts to remove the famous photos that resulted from Wikimedia Commons, a database of royalty-free media from the organization behind Wikipedia. Wikimedia refused, claiming that Slater…

If Wikipedia says it, it must be true: Tim Howard, who stopped approximately 14,000 shots on goal in the U.S. Men's National Team's narrow World Cup loss to Belgium last night, is the USA's acting Secretary of Defense.

Stop obsessing over what that weird oozing bump on your arm might be and go see a doctor already because that Wikipedia page you have open is probably wrong and is only going to make your crazier. Also, stop touching it.

Wikipedia deleted its "Antoinette Tuff" article, instead merging the woman who talked a would-be shooter out of mass murder into an entry about her school district. One of the swaying arguments in favor of deleting her individual post? "No one died here." [via HuffPo]

Slide away the protective cover and gaze straight into the writhing hive mind with this real-time visualizer/audio-whateverer of Wikipedia edits. Soft synthesized chimes (for additions) and strings (for deletions) soothe the ear while the names of the subjects flicker in and out to agitate the eye: List of 2 Broke…

Internet thinkfluencer and Wikipreneur Nimrod Kamer recently delivered a highly disruptive TED Talk on his plans to pivot the Wiki space into a monetizable platform. Solution'd!

You can probably guess off the top of your head the most controversial English-language Wikipedia articles—those topics that inspire extensive re-editing and deleting. (I guarantee you can't guess the fourth-most controversial.) But what about the most controversial articles in other languages? What are Francophones…

Meeting a new person and then flirting with them can be a tense, sweaty experience. Chances are you’re going to say some words they’ve heard before, which is boring; you’re going in with one strike against you. Why not give yourself a fighting chance by arranging those words in new and riveting constructions to reveal…

Look into the history of Paula Broadwell's Wikipedia page and there's not much to it before last Friday. That's the day Republican golden boy and former CIA director David Petraeus resigned as the nation's top spy amid allegations he was cheating on his wife with Broadwell, his biographer. Broadwell's page was so…

When pioneering (for America!) female astronaut Sally Ride passed away yesterday, the company she founded issued a press release noting that she was survived by "her partner of 27 years" Tam O'Shaughnessy. And Tam O'Shaughnessy is a woman. Weird, huh? Wait, there's more.

Scott Adams is the guy who writes Dilbert, a cartoon beloved by suicidal office workers across America. Scott Adams is also, not to brag, the smartest person in America, judging simply by the quantity of thinly-veiled self-regard which drips off of each and every post on Scott Adams' blog, especially the rapey ones.…

Congratulations to 30-year-old Justin Knapp, aka Wikipedia user "koavf", on becoming the first Wikipedia user to make 1,000,000 edits. The Indiana University grad has been editing since 2005, specializing in topics of politics, philosophy and religion. Under the "convictions" section of his user profile he writes "My…