As generative AI companies search for cleaner training data, one of the internet's oldest institutions is quietly changing its economic model. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates ...

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

On 15 January 2001, Wikipedia appeared online with a short announcement saying it was new. Pew Research Center traces ...

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

In addition to the previously announced partnership with Google in 2022, the organization shared publicly for the first time ...

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of the online encyclopedia, said ‍it also signed on AI ​startup Perplexity and France's ...

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.

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