The Latest Breaking News from The Wikimedia Foundation

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.