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BIZARRE: The wikimedia foundation - What They Never Told You

Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression

The Ming Dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia is quietly seething.

PC Gamer

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

Wikipedia reminds us how important it is for AI training, which is why many tech firms pay for enterprise subscriptions.

TechRadar

Wikipedia commemorates 25th anniversary by inking AI licensing deals

Wikipedia, the ninth most visited site globally, boasts over 65 million articles in 300 languages, maintained by some 250,000 volunteers

The Independent UK

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Wikipedia at 25: can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few publishers.

The Conversation

Charlie Kirk tops Wikipedia’s list of most-read articles in 2025 - with Trump and Mamdani making the top 10

Over 15 million people viewed Charlie Kirk’s page on the day after the right-wing podcaster’s death

The Independent UK

Elon Musk launches AI-powered encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia? Will Grokipedia take off?

US tech billionaire Elon Musk launched an AI-powered encyclopedia, Grokipedia. But it got off to a rocky start.

Euronews

Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it

Hopefully that plan doesn't include even bigger donation banners.

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Wikipedia says AI is causing visitor numbers to plummet

Google claims web users are ‘happier with the experience’ of having AI-generated summaries

The Independent UK

Conservatives Slam Wikipedia as 'Woke' And Its Own Co-Founder Agrees: 'It's Been Hijacked by the Left'

Wikipedia faces renewed backlash from conservatives and co-founder Larry Sanger, who says the site has been 'hijacked by the left.' The Wikimedia Foundation insists neutrality remains its core principle.

International Business Times UK

Case dismissed – Wikipedia loses UK Online Safety Act legal challenge, but it may still be safe from age checks

The Wikimedia Foundation has lost its legal challenge against the Online Safety Act, but it may still be on the right track to resist new rules.

TechRadar

Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules

A High Court ruling in the UK has quashed Wikipedia’s attempt to overturn part of the country’s divisive Online Safety Act. Judges dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to rules that could place the online encyclopaedia under the law’s strictest category of regulation.

Euronews

Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same

The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations."

PC Gamer

Wikipedia can challenge Online Safety Act if strictest rules apply to it, says judge

Wikimedia Foundation says it will be forced reduce access to site if it is classified as a category 1 provider

The Guardian - UK

Wikipedia’s ‘neutrality’ has always been complicated. New rules will make questioning it harder

Last month, the American non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia issued draft guidelines for researchers studying how neutral Wikipedia really is. But instead of supporting open inquiry, the guidelines reveal just how unaware the Wikimedia Foundation is of its own influence.

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Euronews

UK online legislation could threaten Wikipedia volunteer safety, group to argue in court

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia will argue this week that the UK’s Online Services Act could impact the safety and privacy of its volunteers.

The Guardian - US

Meta sacrifices a heap of money at the altar of AI

The magnitude of Meta’s investment in Scale may seem like command of the AI race, but the company’s playing catchup

The Independent UK

Wikipedia launches legal challenge against UK Government

New requirements could see more ‘bad content’ on Wikipedia, its owners warn

The Independent UK

Wikipedia launches legal challenge against Online Safety Act

The online encyclopaedia says the new safety rules could threaten its approach to presenting neutral and reliable information.

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Trump-appointed lawyer threatens to revoke Wikipedia's non-profit status, putting the online encyclopedia in jeopardy

Is Wikipedia spreading propaganda? Don't ask Ed Martin

Newslaundry

‘Prima facie contemptuous’: HC orders takedown of Wikipedia page on ANI defamation suit

Terming it “prima facie contemptuous”, the Delhi High Court has ordered the takedown of a Wikipedia page on ANI’s defamation suit against Wikimedia Foundation which hosts the platform, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry

‘If you don’t like India, please don’t work in India’: Delhi HC warns Wikipedia over ANI defamation case

The Delhi High Court came down heavily on Wikipedia for failing to comply with an order to disclose information about alleged defamatory edits made to the Wikipedia page of news agency ANI, labeling it as a “propaganda tool” of the government, Bar and Bench reported.

WEKU

Here are the 25 most-viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

The Independent UK

Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia

Remember what you searched for in 2023

Reuters

Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - Ifax

A Russian court on Tuesday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, 3 million roubles ($36,854) for refusing to delete an article on Ukraine's Azov battalion, the Interfax news agency reported.

Reason

Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of Writer E. Jean Carroll

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