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 ...

Some professors now assign Wikipedia editing as an alternative to the traditional research paper. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you ...

The date is January 15, 2001. You were beginning to do some research for a paper you were writing. Your first step was, as expected, Encyclopedia Britannica. The oldest and most respected English ...

Poor Wikipedia. Professional Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing one of its contributors for a defamatory cyber-attack. And last year, television host and comedian Stephen Colbert urged his audience to ...

In the coming months, conspiracy videos posted on YouTube will begin to display text boxes called "information cues," which link to Wikipedia and other third-party sources to discredit a hoax. YouTube ...

If you are sitting in front of a Linux system, you can always pop open a browser and query topics of interest on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if you’re logged on through a terminal emulator like ...

Follow the steps below on how to use Wikipedia in Microsoft Word: Launch Microsoft Word Click Insert, then click the Wikipedia button. Click the Trust this add-in button. Enter text into the Search ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic, followed by another topic ...