Wikipedia, one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

It blows my mind that a) all of Wikipedia’s 6.5 million articles can weigh an ounce and fit in a pocket and 2) English Wikipedia is only about 89GB with pictures included and 46GB without.

English Wikipedia has a lot of data. There are 13.9+ million pages with 20.0+ GB of text, as well as 3.7+ million thumbnails. Setting all this up on your computer will not be a quick process ...

If everything works well, and you’re daring, proceed to try and download the ENTIRE English version of Wikipedia. Fair warning: as of this writing, it’s about 23GB, and may take several hours ...

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade AI developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models.

Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial intelligence, which could reduce the site’s reliability.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with sociologist Dr. Francesca Tripodi about her recent study looking at the gender bias on Wikipedia and who gets to be "notable." ...

This study, conducted by researchers at the Berkman Klein Center, assesses the degree to which English-language Wikipedia is successful in moderating harmful speech. The analysis is informed by two ...