Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia describes plagiarism as “the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or ...

Wikipedia describes plagiarism as “the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work.” The basic principle is that authors should give credit ...

As we celebrate Wikipedia Day on January 15, more than two decades after its launch, the online encyclopedia continues to ...

I can tell when my students have consulted Wikipedia when writing their papers. Sentences lose their singularity, transitions go flat, diction pales. The discourse sounds like information issuing from ...

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The world wide web of the 1990s had ...