On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a ...

Can public health experts tell that an infectious disease outbreak is imminent simply by looking at what people are searching for on Wikipedia? Yes, at least in some cases. Researchers from Los Alamos ...

This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the 2013-2014 influenza season using data ...

Researchers created a new data-analysis system that looks at visits to Wikipedia articles, and found the system was able to estimate flu levels in the United States up to two weeks sooner than the flu ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI ...

Plenty of companies have been looking at software for analyzing private large data sets and combining it with external streams such as tweets to make predictions that could boost revenue or cut ...

Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Supported by By Jon Gertner In early 2021 ...

A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity) But as part of my research in producing Print Wikipedia, I ...