"Wikipedia is 25. The world's largest encyclopedia celebrated its birthday on 15 January. That is a remarkable milestone: not just because of the website's longevity and enduring relevance, but also because it has retained its founding values. These are worth reiterating: Wikipedia is free to use, is extremely participatory and aims for a high degree of transparency in its content. Its roughly 65 million (and counting) entries contain sources for the information described that users can access."
""Everything about Wikipedia is a worship of expertise," its co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with Nature on 12 January (Nature 649, 549-551; 2026). That commitment to evidence and transparency is worth celebrating and supporting in every way possible, especially considering concerns about current threats to the integrity of knowledge. As social-media algorithms fuel extreme opinions and the Internet is flooded with low-quality information, increasingly generated with the aid of artificial-intelligence technologies,"
The online encyclopedia serves as an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem, and researchers should help to nourish it. Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday on 15 January and has retained founding values of free access, high participation and content transparency. The platform hosts roughly 65 million entries with accessible sources that support verification and evidence. Co-founder Jimmy Wales described Wikipedia as a 'worship of expertise.' A commitment to evidence and transparency is increasingly vital because social-media algorithms amplify extreme opinions and the Internet is flooded with low-quality, often AI-generated information.
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