Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked – all three factors contribute to ...

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a distressing fact: Air Buddy, the basketball-playing golden retriever and star of the 1997 classic Air Bud, died of cancer in 1998. I didn't mean to find this out. And I ...

The galaxy of art on Wikiverse.io (All screen shots by the author for Hyperallergic) (Click to enlarge) Designed by French programmer Owen Cornec, Wikiverse debuted in 2014, but a recent update grew ...

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a distressing fact: Air Buddy, the basketball-playing golden retriever and star of the 1997 classic Air Bud, died of cancer in 1998. I didn't mean to find this out. And I ...

Very often you can’t grasp the topic until you sit down and map it on the sheet of paper. Sometimes, you also need someone else’s input to see how others perceive the topic. Well, the good news is ...

A European research team has released a quantitative model that describes how obsessive edit wars on Wikipedia heat up, flame out, and eventually form consensus. Collaborative editing on Wikipedia ...