Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once ...

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

Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than six million articles. The feat, which comes roughly 19 years after ...

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million ...

From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise ...

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Wikipedia is one of the internet’s last bastions of freely accessible public information, and since it’s relatively unspoiled by the type of polarization common on social media it can feel refreshing ...

Wikipedia has lasted 25 years, and keeps getting better. So of course Elon wants to destroy it ...

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.

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