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25 Years Later: Wikipedia's Ad-Free Miracle Amid AI Wars and Government Threats

• 👤 Yunus Yagis
📂 Gaming
Wikipedia logo with a shield icon symbolizing ad-free survival against AI and legal challenges

Wikipedia’s 25th birthday party has a ‘Don’t Look Up’ vibe—here’s how it’s dodging AI asteroid and government grenades. The site, which turns 25 on January 15, 2026, reports 27 billion monthly page views and 7 billion unique visitors.

Founder Jimmy Wales made his first edit on an iMac G3 in 2001, and the platform holds a 2020 Guinness World Record for largest encyclopedia (50 million+ articles).

But survival isn’t easy. The UK Online Safety Act in 2025 forced legal battles, while a Trump-appointed official threatened to revoke Wikimedia’s nonprofit status.

Human readership dropped 8% in 2025 as AI bot traffic surged. A 2026 article on the Ship of Theseus contains zero original text from 2001, yet the site remains ad-free, relying on occasional donation requests.

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