Wikimedia is selling enterprise access to Wikipedia to Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, shifting AI firms from scraping to paid ...

To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that backs Wikipedia — is releasing brief clips that highlight eight ...

Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...

Wikipedia turned 25 years old today. Now, its audience is increasingly all the massive big tech AI answer engines around the ...

The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training ...

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At 25, Wikipedia embodies what the internet could have been: user-powered, open, and accountable. Wikipedia may have its warts, and it's far from perfect, but it's transparent about its imperfections.

On its 25th birthday, Wikipedia confronts A.I.-driven traffic drops while betting on licensing deals, video and new tools to ...

As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. Around 7 million articles are in English.

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The world wide web of the 1990s had ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the site, signed Google as one of its first customers in 2022 and announced ...

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia ...