Whether Wikipedia purists approve of Lsjbot or not, data scraping software that can mass produce articles is increasingly on the rise. Just last month, the Associated Press announced that it would be ...

Wikipedia is rolling out a new, easier-to-use editing interface designed to make the site more welcoming to would-be Wikipedians.

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

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 ...

Software engineer Bryan Henderson spends an hour every Sunday evening fixing between 70 and 80 new mentions of the phrase 'comprised of' on Wikipedia.

Despite a media habit of referring to Wikipedia as an open-source project, it looks only a little like such software efforts.

Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday that his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away all the software, computing, storage and network access ...