It's a bad idea, being advanced under the guise of "holding Big Tech accountable". In reality, the super-rich will benefit and every attempt to build a new kind of social media (Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., etc.) will suffer. Put it this way: Wikipedia needs Section 230. medium.com/wikimedia-po...

I just interviewed Jimmy Wales about it for Lawfare. He was refreshingly unapologetic about the Wikipedia editorial community's perpetual discussion of sources and the reality that some simply better than others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtp1...

One very effective yet overlooked way scientists can combat misinformation is by improving Wikipedia pages and contributing high-quality posts on Reddit.

There is much debate about the American education system failing entire generations, which is why I propose exploring the method I used to gain vast knowledge: checking wikipedia to ensure the accuracy of a shitpost and falling down a 4 hour rabbit hole reading about the Habsburg Monarchy

Most are still in the dark ages about Wikipedia not being a reliable source for papers. Even though primary citations are available anyways in all the articles. The funny thing is it's more reliable than the AI slop that will default from kids Google searches now.

It's stunning to think about how many people who used to say "you can't trust anything in Wikipedia, anyone can put stuff in there" will now unhesitatingly believe anything they see from an LLM chatbot ... trained on Wikipedia.

There was a time when professors warned students never to cite Wikipedia. Now it has become foundational knowledge for AI systems and a trusted resource for community fact-checkers who use it to make sense of information & settle debates. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca #FactChecking #DigitalLiteracy

Great rant by #HankGreen in defense of #wikipedia, which gets my three bucks every month 💜 youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

In 2025, people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours reading English Wikipedia articles ... The #Top20 most-read English #Wikipedia #articles of 2025 outlined below focus on politics, popular culture, and loss. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/12...