Several months ago, I discovered that I was being “considered for deletion.” Or rather, the entry on me in the Internet behemoth that is Wikipedia was. Jimmy Wales does not fit the profile of an ...

In an excerpt from his new book, The Innovators, Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia that has proven its detractors wrong time and again. Ward Cunningham, Jimmy ...

As our readers know, Vator has started a series called When they were young. It’s a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they evolved. In ...

On Wednesday, January 15th 2007, Wikipedia (Wikipedia) celebrated its 6th anniversary. However, it is not well known that there was "Nupedia" (Nupedia) before this Wikipedia. Nupedia was started in ...

Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it's a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view ...

This article was taken from the May 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Larry Sanger seems to have a thing about free online encyclopedias. Although his main claim to fame is as the co-founder, along with Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia, that is just one of several projects to ...

I can't tell you how much time I've spent on Wikipedia reading fun facts about Alabama, so I don't know how I missed this one. The founder of Wikipedia itself, Jimmy Wales, is from Huntsville, Alabama ...