The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

Jim Peters couldn't access his original birth certificate due to state law in Virginia. Now that law is set to change.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

For years, mathematical content on the web has been made accessible through MathML. In contrast, math in PDF files was typically reduced to unstructured alternative text—insufficient for braille math ...