Wikipedia's co-founder on Elon Musk's Grokipedia, the debate over bias on Wikipedia, and rebuilding trust in a world awash in skepticism.
The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stormed out of an interview after he was asked if he was the sole founder of the free internet encyclopedia. Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 with Larry Sanger, ...
On this episode of the Unknowns, host Charlie Stone chats with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, coinciding with Wikipedia's 25th anniversary. The wide-ranging conversation reflects on Wikipedia's ...
For years, Wikipedia’s lesser known co-founder has decried what he sees as the site’s liberal bias. Suddenly, some of the country’s most powerful people are listening. Larry Sanger, ousted from the ...
On the Friday, November 28, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Wikipedia began as an idea for open knowledge. Despite challenges, its team of volunteers continues to work to build trust one article ...
The Wikipedia logo on Nov. 30, 2019. Less than a month before the launch of Wikipedia, my daughter Kira was born. The two events are connected. Kira was born seriously ill, as she had breathed in ...
Wikipedia has a serious problem. For over a year, I’ve reported on how the most sensitive topics on the site have been captured by ideological editors and special interests. If Wikipedia were just a ...
Opinion

Can You Trust Wikipedia?

Wikipedia shapes our perception of reality today more than ever before because it informs the large language models like ChatGPT. But can we really trust it?
From the founder of Wikipedia, a sweeping reflection on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge, revealing "the rules of trust" that transformed Wikipedia from a scrappy experiment into a ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales blasted a “Gaza genocide” article on the site for anti-Israel bias — days after volunteer administrators locked the page under Wikipedia’s rules for highly disputed ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says Bitcoin is a "complete failure." ...