The Generosity Of Strangers Built Wikipedia. At 25, It Needs A New Generation

At 25, Wikipedia is the invisible engine behind every AI answer—built by 250,000 unpaid strangers. Inside the campaign ...

UK staff at the foundation that runs Wikipedia seeks union recognition

WMF staff are based around the world, and the UK contingent is the first to seek union recognition. Workers have been ...
MediaNama

Wikimedia introduces paid version of Wikipedia for Big Tech

Wikipedia is funded largely by donations from its users and has been free to everyone since its launch in 2001. But WikiMedia Foundation, which administers the online encyclopedia, announced via an ...
Inc

Amazon Just Donated $1 Million to Wikipedia. Here’s Why It Matters

The Wikimedia foundation, a nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects, recently announced that Amazon made a $1 million gift to its endowment fund. This donation makes ...
Observer

Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.

As large language models absorb Wikipedia’s content without attribution, the world’s free encyclopedia finds itself at the center of the AI information economy—struggling to keep control over the ...
Forbes

The Power Of The Wikimedia Movement Beyond Wikimedia

“In January 2017, we the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have ...
The Independent

Can we trust Wikipedia? 1.4 billion people can't be wrong

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...