A computer science professor hopes to give Wikipedia users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in entries.

After its site is edited to say Sens. Kennedy and Byrd had died, user-generated resource looks at allowing only trusted users to immediately publish content changes.

The pair wrote Swipe using MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia is based on, but it draws its answers from DBpedia, an expansive collection of 3.6 million data entries harvested from Wikipedia’s pages.

The federated wiki is an attempt to solve these problems. As a starting point, he has built a new piece of software -- dubbed The Smallest Federated Wiki -- to demonstrate the concept.

Researchers have developed new software that will allow users to put more and larger images on Wikipedia. Every day millions of users upload thousands of images to Wikipedia. Until now, the ...

Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia's corporate culture seems conflicted between its role as a harmless nouveau-digital experiment and its broader ambitions.