On Reddit, users cited figures from Wikipedia while discussing the virus’s mortality rates. In short, Wikipedia has become central in how the ongoing health crisis is processed and discussed online.

Wikipedia is at war over the coronavirus lab leak theory Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most ...

Wikipedia's editors are working to combat the coronavirus not just on the online encyclopedia but in the real-world as well.

The coronavirus articles on English Wikipedia are part of WikiProject Medicine, a collection of some 35,000 articles that are watched over by nearly 150 editors with interest and expertise in ...

A new study shows that public attention during the Zika virus epidemic was largely driven by media coverage, rather than the epidemic’s magnitude or extent. Now, during COVID-19, the main 2019 ...

The Coronavirus Is Stress-Testing Wikipedia’s Policies How does the internet’s encyclopedia stay accurate with news and knowledge changing by the hour?

If you see commercial ads the next time you look something up on Wikipedia, it doesn’t mean the online encyclopedia has decided to turn a profit — it possibly means your web browser has… ...

Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage The deletions, the editor fights—all of it will be important to researchers studying this period.