Meet WikiTok, a website that lets you endlessly scroll through excerpts of Wikipedia entries and click to read the ones that ...

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I created a viral infinite scrolling Wikipedia page in just hours. I think this shows people may be tired of highly curated ...

Larry Sanger may be a lifelong skeptic, but the co-founder of the world s most popular online encyclopedia is certain he s ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has publicly declared his Christian faith, saying the time is right to "fully and publicly" ...

The Wikimedia Foundation will likely soon have to contend with “the rising noise of criticism from Elon Musk and others,” as founder Jimmy Wales recently put it. It’s already taking measures to ...

At present, WikiTok's scrollable selection is a vertical conga line of totally random articles drawn from Wikipedia's API.

Instead, WikiTok visitors are randomly treated to one of Wikipedia’s nearly-9.5 million-and-counting entries along with an ...

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There is a moment every week dedicated to placing my face in front of my phone screen: my children's karate practice. While ...

WikiTok users can swipe through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs, discovering random facts and interesting ...

Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they ...