Wikipedia Is battling for the soul of the Internet
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NEW YORK TIMES — In Wikipedia’s 25-year history, it has never had to fight this hard.
The organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square. It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia’s 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers.
And it is expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation.
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