Wikipedia is the Web's most prominent source of information, but because of its crowd-sourcing model, it's not always the most credible. That's pretty much the opposite of federal Web sites, which ...

Ten experienced Wikipedia volunteers visited the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, last week to train the scientists there on how to use and contribute to the world's de facto outboard brain ...

On Sept. 18, the NIH vandal returned, according to a history of the site’s edits posted by Wikipedia. This time, the definition was gradually changed, presumably to avoid the vandalism detector.

The National Institutes of Health says it might want to incorporate a wiki into its information technology systems. NIH’s Office of the Chief IT Architect posted a request for information May 9 ...

Here are my larger pieces of news and comment specifically on the adoption of the NIH policy. Chronological order. —Peter Suber. The open-access plan from the House Appropriations Committee, SPARC ...

To make online information more reliable, NIH is encouraging its scientists and science writers to edit and even initiate Wikipedia articles in their fields.