The next time you’re bored and find yourself falling deeper and deeper down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, here’s a tip to get a little extra entertainment out of the world’s largest online encyclopedia.

Who are these people who edit Wikipedia, and where do they come from? The answer to this question matters: It was these editors who decided, for instance, to remove women from the “American novelists” ...

Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The timeline below shows the results of processing the entire English ...

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Wikipedia has announced this week that a new update for its iOS and Android application will remove the Google Maps integration the apps both use, and replace it with OpenStreetMaps technology. As ...

In this March 15, 2012 photo, Ben Gleitzman uses a traffic and navigation app called Waze on his Apple iPhone as he drives to work in Menlo Park, Calif. Thousands of enthusiasts traveling the world ...

A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity) But as part of my research in producing Print Wikipedia, I ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, ...