EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 21 (UPI) -- The Scottish Parent Teacher Council blames students' reliance on Wikipedia and similar online sources for a drop in examination scores.
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16 (UPI) -- Encyclopedia Britannica is planning to allow the public to contribute to its scholarly Internet entries in an effort to broaden content, a spokesman said.
LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Los Angeles authorities are holding a teenager for psychiatric evaluation after he allegedly posted threatening messages on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.
LONDON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- BBC staff allegedly made more than 7,000 edits to Wikipedia entries they viewed as unfavorable, it was reported Sunday.
TRENTON, N.J., June 19 (UPI) -- A New Jersey lawyer teaching history to home-schooled children said he founded Web site Conservapedia.com to balance Wikipedia's alleged liberal bias.
MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- but it lets anyone with enough knownledge to go online to edit or
HAVANA, May 3 (UPI) -- The Cuba entry in a popular online information site has become the subject of intense debate over its political bias, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
CHICAGO, March 24 (UPI) -- The Encyclopedia Britannica says a report in Nature trashing its accuracy is itself riddled with errors.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is changing its ways amid claims it had become a breeding ground for "false and malicious" information.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- After 13 years of keeping "The Donald" waiting, the Chicago-based World Book has decided to put the real estate and casino mogul in the encyclopedia.