People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it’s a beacon of so much that’s right.

The Wikipedia origin story.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.

The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.

The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.

A cautionary inquiry into the unchecked hive mind.