Business Impact Wikipedia’s Founder Wants to Fix Fake News Can a cadre of professional journalists, edited by volunteers and paid via crowdfunding, crack a problem that’s plaguing the Internet? by Jamie Condliffe 2017-04-25T10:45:00-04:00
Connectivity Collection of 13,500 Nastygrams Could Advance War on Trolls The nonprofit behind Wikipedia is teaming up with Google to work on algorithmic discussion monitors. by Tom Simonite 2017-02-07T10:44:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines The Strange Way Aircraft Crashes Attract Human Attention on the Web Traffic to Wikipedia pages about aircraft crashes varies in unexpected ways, say Internet researchers. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-07-07T10:56:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better The nonprofit behind Wikipedia is turning to machine learning to combat a long-standing decline in the number of editors. by Tom Simonite 2015-11-30T19:15:00-05:00
Humans and Technology Toolkits for the Mind Programming languages shape the way their users think—which helps explain how tech startups work and why they are able to reinvent themselves. by James Somers 2015-04-02T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The Next Frontier in Crowdsourcing: Your Smartphone Researchers have shown that the swipe-to-unlock action can be replaced with useful data collection or micro-tasks. by Rachel Metz 2014-03-12T13:14:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Putting Crowdsourcing on the Map Mapillary is trying to build a community-generated version of Google Street View. by Rachel Metz 2014-02-28T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines The Decline of Wikipedia The community that built the largest encyclopedia in history is shrinking, even as more people and Internet services depend on it than ever. Can it be revived, or is this the end of the Web’s idealistic era? by Tom Simonite 2013-10-22T02:00:02-04:00
Intelligent Machines How the Wiki Was Born of Apple and the Mac Bill Atkinson invented everything from the menu bar to hypercard–the program that inspired the first wiki. by Christopher Mims 2011-03-27T00:00:00-04:00
News Wikipedia to Add Meaning to Its Pages The online encyclopedia is exploring ways to embrace the semantic Web. by Tom Simonite 2010-07-07T00:00:00-04:00
