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 ...

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 ...

The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets should get the new “Government Funded Media” label. Reading time 3 minutes Twitter CEO Elon Musk ...

As a teacher, you become accustomed to hearing your students say some pretty outlandish things. Still, when a student told me, “Mr. Freder doesn’t let us use Wikipedia,” I was rocked with incredulity.

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 ...