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January 20, 2026

Jimmy Wales Refuses to Edit Donald Trump's Wikipedia Page

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales prioritizes the platform's principles of trust and neutral information over growth-at-all-costs, reflecting on challenges like polarization and AI threats while refusing to personally edit high-profile entries. Wales expresses a clear preference for Wikipedia's human...

Wikipedia at 25: A Look Inside Its Volunteer Community

Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary as a massive global resource, now hosting over 65 million articles and receiving nearly 15 billion monthly views, powered by a vast volunteer community. To mark the milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation highlights diverse volunteer editors through a docuser...

Wikipedia co-founder joins Gaza genocide page edit dispute

Jimmy Wales intervened in the "Gaza genocide" Wikipedia article, criticizing its lack of neutrality and urging revisions to present disputed claims as debated rather than established fact. The article was temporarily protected to prevent edit wars, and Wales emphasized that Wikipedia should neutr...