Wikipedia:Press coverage 2025

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2025, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

January

• Kredo, Adam (January 2, 2025). "Wikipedia Declares Hamas the Victor in Nearly Every Battle Against Israel Since 10/7—Then Quietly Deletes Section". The Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved January 3, 2025. Joe Truzman, an expert on Palestinian militant groups with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, said the latest online controversy highlights the often inaccurate nature of Wikipedia's entries about Israel.
• Krymalowski, Sarah (January 6, 2025). "Meet the Nunavut grandpa who has made over 250,000 Wikipedia edits". CBC.ca. Retrieved January 6, 2025. His first project was to try and add a Wikipedia page for every airport in Canada, no matter how small. Then he moved on to weather monitoring equipment. He was made an administrator after just months as an editor. He said that now, the process is quite rigorous, but at the time, it was pretty informal.
• Rosenfeld, Arno (January 7, 2025). "Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors". The Forward. Retrieved January 7, 2025. The Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are 'abusing their position' by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic
• Hampton, Daniel (January 7, 2025). "Right-wing think tank plans to target Wikipedia editors via malicious links: report". Raw Story. Retrieved January 8, 2025. "The slideshow says the group's 'targeting methodologies' would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun," according to the Forward.
• Kaplan, Josh (January 7, 2025). "We can't let anti-Israel activists poison the well of Wikipedia". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved January 8, 2025. This is how you get every Wikipedia article vaguely mentioning Israel becoming a catalogue of anti-Zionism.
• Jones, Marcie (January 8, 2025). "Wikipedia Won't Let Elon Musk Fluff His Resume. Heritage Foundation Will Help By Terrorizing The Editors". Wonkette. Retrieved January 8, 2025. Whatever would they do with editors' personal information? Send them fruit baskets, surely!
• Gault, Matthew (January 8, 2025). "The People Behind Project 2025 Want to Reveal the Identities of Wikipedia Editors". Gizmodo. Retrieved January 8, 2025. What did Wikipedia do with that $31.2 million? It gave much of it out as grant money. In the Middle East, it funded the Arab Reports for Investigative Journalism, which helps train journalists in Arab countries. In Brazil, it funded the InternetLab which spent the money researching racial disparities and internet access in the country. In North America, it gave money to the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, which helped fund local newsgathering.
• Kushner, Aviya (January 8, 2025). "What critics miss when they accuse Israel of 'scholasticide' and 'domicide'". The Forward. Retrieved March 19, 2025. And this must be said: The cascade of newish terms ending in "cide" — "scholasticide," "educide" and "domicide" — all have one thing in common on Wikipedia: The current war in Gaza is always used as an example.
• Zeisloft, Ben (January 9, 2025). "Group Behind Project 2025 to Target Rogue Wikipedia Editors, Hold Them Accountable: Report". The Western Journal. Retrieved January 9, 2025. The Heritage Foundation launched a new effort to track down volunteer editors on Wikipedia who are publishing what they believe to be antisemitic content.
• "Finding hidden biases in Wikipedia's multilingual content". Johns Hopkins University. January 9, 2025. Retrieved January 9, 2025. By creating and deploying a new tool called INFOGAP, the researchers used artificial intelligence to look at how biographical information about LGBT people is presented across the English, Russian, and French versions of Wikipedia and found inconsistencies in how they are portrayed.
• Rabey, Steve (January 9, 2025). "Heritage Foundation antisemitism effort recycles conspiracy theories". Baptist News Global. Retrieved January 10, 2025. The pressure on Wikipedia comes as the online, user-generated encyclopedia has been under fire from some Jewish organizations for its coverage of the war in Gaza and for labeling the Anti-Defamation League a "generally unreliable source" on the war. Wikipedia says the ADL is a pro-Israel activist group that declares nearly any criticism of Jews or Israel antisemitic.
• O'Cearbhaill, Muiris (January 10, 2025). "Most of the Irish-language Wikipedia was written by editors who did not speak Irish". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved January 10, 2025. Speaking to The Journal, Uí Ríordáin – who is full-time employee at Wikipedia Community Ireland – said that Vicipéid has helped to boost the confidence of students and other non-native speakers in their ability to use Irish.
• Богудан, Назар (January 12, 2025). "Wikimedia Ukraine has published a list of the most visited articles on the Ukrainian Wikipedia for 2024". Baltimore Chronicle. Retrieved January 12, 2025. The leader of the rating was an article about Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was viewed over 1.1 million times. In second place is an article about Ukraine, and the top three is an article about Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk.
• Montgomery, Blake (January 14, 2025). "How to politicize the truth on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia". The Guardian. Retrieved January 14, 2025. The differences between Facebook, Instagram and Wikipedia are as vast as the Gulf of America, though: the goal of Wikipedia is to compile and spread accurate information. That is not the aim of Facebook, Instagram, or any other social network, and has never been one of its strong points.
• Morrow, Allison (January 14, 2025). "In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet". CNN. Retrieved January 14, 2025. ...the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia. If I'd written that last sentence at the start of my career, no editor would have allowed it into print. You can't trust something that anyone can edit, the thinking went, and so it became a bad word in journalism and academia. Don't cite it; don't even look at it. Or if you do, for God's sake, don't let anyone see you.
• "AI giant's Desi CEO says 'pretty clear Wikipedia is biased'; wants to build 'neutral and unbiased: Wikipedia rival". The Times of India. January 15, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025. Aravind Srinivas criticizes Wikipedia's neutrality, urging for unbiased alternatives.
• "Wikipedia Turns 24: Here's How The People's Encyclopedia Has Evolved Over The Years". ABP News. January 15, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025. Beyond its functional value, Wikipedia has become a cultural phenomenon. It has inspired memes, informed countless debates, and even become a trusted companion for breaking news. Its transparent editing history also provides a unique window into how society's understanding of events evolves over time.
• Chakraborty, Rajarsi (January 15, 2025). ""How? They've been asking for $1 for 84 years"- Internet reacts as Wikipedia turns 24". Sportskeeda. Retrieved January 15, 2025. Users on X were quick to react to the website turning 24.
• Purdy, Kevin (January 16, 2025). "The Editors weaves Wikipedia's volunteers into a global suspense tale". Ars Technica. Retrieved January 17, 2025. It's always fascinating to me how, by and large, every page is so much better than I think it will be. Really high-energy, maybe "truth optional" pages for topics like cryptocurrencies. It's a small miracle that they're as orderly and reasonable as they end up being.
• Bussigny, Nora (January 17, 2025). "Nous avons infiltré une formation d'Urgence Palestine pour influencer Wikipédia" [We infiltrated a Palestine Emergency formation to influence Wikipedia]. Le Point (in French). Retrieved January 28, 2025. According to Bader, so far, no structured French group is working on Palestine, unlike the "other side" namely Israel, which is said to be "organized." On the English Wikipedia, the pro-Palestinians are "more numerous, they have been attacked, they have been targeted, but they are successful," Bader specifies. [Google translate]
• Bandler, Aaron (January 18, 2025). "Wikipedia's Supreme Court On the Verge of Topic Banning 8 Editors from Israel-Palestine Area". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved January 19, 2025. Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom), which is the site's version of the Supreme Court, is on the verge of issuing indefinite topic bans to eight editors involved in the Israel-Palestine topic area, most of them of being anti-Israel editors.
• "Anti-Israel Wikipedia editors face bans after spreading hate, misinformation". The Jerusalem Post. January 20, 2025. Retrieved January 20, 2025. Multiple anti-Israel Wikipedia editors are likely to be topic-banned after spreading misinformation and hate across the site, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced on Friday.
• Sugy, Paul (January 21, 2025). "«La majorité des contributeurs sont de gauche» : comment Wikipédia a cessé d'être neutre" ["The majority of contributors are left-wing": How Wikipedia stopped being neutral]. Le Figaro. Retrieved January 30, 2025. On the side of Wikimedia France, whose ideological orientations Le Figaro has already reported , murky links have existed for several years between members of the board of directors and the association " les sans pagEs " which pays employees to produce Wikipedia content on people belonging to groups identified as minorities and underrepresented in the encyclopedia.[Google translate]
• Mannen, Amanda (January 22, 2025). "21 Wikipedia Pages We Can't Believe Are Real". Cracked.com. Retrieved January 22, 2025. You could just hit "random page" and not get bored for at least as long as it takes to convince your boss that you're working.
• Sherratt, Madeline (January 22, 2025). "Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a 'Nazi salute'". The Independent. Retrieved January 22, 2025. "Since legacy media propaganda is considered a "valid" source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!", he wrote on X.
• Thompson, Sophie (January 22, 2025). "Elon Musk is now demanding action against Wikipedia following inauguration gesture fallout". Indy100.com. Retrieved January 22, 2025. "Wikipedia is completely ideologically captured. Deserves $0 in donations until they re-balance", the author wrote. After seeing the post, Musk chimed in demanding action taken against Wikipedia. "Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!", he wrote.
• Burman, Theo (January 22, 2025). "Wikipedia Fires Back at Elon Musk". Newsweek. Retrieved January 22, 2025. "Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!" Musk wrote on X. "Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority." However, Wales replied to Musk, defending the site and criticizing the tech CEO for stirring up anger.
• "Wikipedia could ban eight editors accused of anti-Israel bias indefinitely". Allisrael.com. January 22, 2025. Retrieved January 22, 2025. The editor of the blog "The Wikipedia Flood," however, said the topic bans are barely enough, especially given the large number of editors involved, and the fact that so many of those involved were not part of the disciplinary action.
• Fung, Katherine (January 22, 2025). "Why Is MAGA Setting Its Sights on Wikipedia?". Newsweek. Retrieved January 22, 2025. The emerging coalition of MAGA supporters and Silicon Valley's tech bros and venture capitalists has found a new shared target to set its sights on: the world's largest free encyclopedia.
• Becca, Milfeld (January 23, 2025). "Musk calls for defunding of Wikipedia over description of gesture". The Japan Times. Retrieved January 23, 2025. While Musk's animosity towards Wikipedia may focus outwardly on the hand gesture, Wikipedia's goal of factual neutrality makes it a natural adversary to X — a platform increasingly synonymous with heated culture wars, hate speech and disinformation. Wikipedia and the media at large — which Musk has increasingly criticized — also pose a threat by holding him accountable as he thrusts himself into the center of U.S. politics.
• Elia-Shalev, Asaf (January 23, 2025). "Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved January 24, 2025. Eight Wikipedia editors accused of disruptive behavior have been barred from making changes to articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following a a ruling issued Thursday by the crowd-sourced encyclopedia's highest oversight body.
• Lewis, John (January 27, 2025). "Redressing the gender imbalance on Wikipedia". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved January 27, 2025. She said her Wikipedia editing journey began back in 2018 with learning about what was considered notable on the site and identifying where there were gaps which really needed to be filled.
• Bandler, Aaron (January 27, 2025). "French Journalist Exposes Anti-Israel Club Training French Wikipedia Editors". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved January 28, 2025. Bussigny told me ... "However, I was keen to reveal and prove through this immersion that fiercely anti-Zionist organized networks are targeting the online encyclopedia, which is extremely popular in France, especially among pupils and students who may be unknowingly influenced."
• "Wikipedia bans eight editors, six of them anti-Israel". Jewish News Syndicate. January 28, 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025. The behavior of anti-Israel Wikipedia editors has been in the news lately.
• Leloup, Damien (January 29, 2025). "Why Elon Musk is calling for a boycott of Wikipedia". Le Monde. Retrieved January 30, 2025. Yet Wikipedia remains one of the few major platforms where political debates can take place in a way that is both intense and calm, even on the most controversial subjects, Vermeirsche noted.
• Minhas, Shahid; Salawu, Abiodun (January 29, 2025). "Wikipedia and indigenous language preservation: analysis of Setswana and Punjabi languages". Frontiers in Communication. Retrieved February 7, 2025. However, both languages benefit from the visibility and preservation opportunities provided by the platform. Qualitative content analysis demonstrated that both Wikipedia editions contain a mix of cultural, historical, and contemporary topics.
• Grevy Gotfredsen, Sarah (January 30, 2025). "The Right Takes Aim at Wikipedia". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved January 30, 2025. Might Wikipedia, the ever-evolving online compendium of human knowledge, become the latest target in the new administration's crackdown on public sources of information?

February

• Schneider, Dan; Cornelio, Luis (February 3, 2025). "Wikipedia's Blacklist: Smearing Trump, Conservatives, And The GOP". The Daily Wire. Retrieved February 3, 2025. The bottom line: 84% of Left-leaning outlets have Wikipedia's stamp of approval, while 0% of right-leaning outlets even get a wink from the tech giant.
• Cornelio, Luis (February 3, 2025). "EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia Effectively Blacklists ALL Right-Leaning Media; Smearing Trump, GOP and Conservatives". NewsBusters. Retrieved February 3, 2025. Wikipedia warns that if "no such source exists, that may suggest that the information is inaccurate." In other words, the only media reports that are considered trustworthy are those reported by leftist, legacy media.
• Joseph, MacKinnon (February 4, 2025). "Wikipedia blacklists Blaze News and other right-leaning sources, ensuring it's a one-stop liberal propaganda shop". Blaze Media. Retrieved February 5, 2025. It's no secret that Wikipedia's volunteer editors are predominantly ideological myopes favorable to leftist causes, ideas, and personalities and antipathetic to conservatives of various stripes.
• Harrison, Stephen (February 5, 2025). "Project 2025's Creators Want to Dox Wikipedia Editors. The Tool They're Using Is Horrifying". Slate. Retrieved February 5, 2025. It seems that both the CCP and Heritage believe that if you can't win an argument in the digital space of Wikipedia, it's fair game to destroy that person's life offline.
• "Big Tech must block Wikipedia until it stops censoring and pushing disinformation". New York Post. February 5, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2025. The source blacklist has zero to do with accuracy and everything to do with shutting down any journalist who doesn't bend the knee to the left. And stifling any discourse not approved by progressive would-be overlords in biz and government and the NGO sector. In other words, Wikipedia is engaged in an actual disinformation op.
• Carroll, Tobias (February 5, 2025). "How Long Can Wikipedia Hold On?". InsideHook. Retrieved February 6, 2025. I think that there's this political-industrial complex right now where everything is being politicized, right? And the right wing has an interest in portraying Wikipedia as left-wing and a kind of liberal media. ... But if I had to guess, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better in terms of partisan rhetoric about Wikipedia.
• Shroff, Lila (February 5, 2025). "Elon Musk Wants What He Can't Have: Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 6, 2025. Wikipedia is certainly not immune to bad information, disagreement, or political warfare, but its openness and transparency rules have made it a remarkably reliable platform in a decidedly unreliable age. Evidence that it's an outright propaganda arm of the left, or of any political party, is thin.
• Hurley, Bevan (February 6, 2025). "Wikipedia accused of blacklisting conservative US media". The Times. Retrieved February 7, 2025. The Media Research Center, a conservative organisation, released a report on the free online encyclopedia's list of "reliable sources". The report said that all the US news sites the centre categorised as right-leaning had failed to meet Wikipedia's criteria as a trusted resource for administrators.
• Kanevskaya, Sofya (February 6, 2025). "Online lifeline". Novaya Gazeta. Retrieved February 9, 2025. Even Wikipedia recognises the gravity of the situation its contributors in Belarus now face, to the extent that they have overridden their own protocols and deleted the entire edit history for Belarus-related articles that could land its users in trouble.
• Mitsui, Mina (February 7, 2025). 「産経新聞はお断り」の移民支援団体 その理由はウィキペディアの乱暴すぎる定義 [Immigration support group declines interview with Sankei Shimbun – the reason is Wikipedia's excessively harsh definition]. Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved March 20, 2025. 英語版は「極右新聞」と書いた韓国の英字誌を引用していた。言葉の壁があるとしても、定義が乱暴すぎる。 [The English Wikipedia article on Sankei Shimbun cited a South Korean English-language magazine that called it a "far-right newspaper." Even though there may be a language barrier, the definition is too rough and simplistic.]
• Prosser, Jordan (February 10, 2025). "Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page". The Guardian. Retrieved February 14, 2025. As you scroll through the 2020s, though, you'll notice that the pages keep going: 2026, 2027, 2028 and so on. The reliably dull Wikipedia interface remains unchanged, even as recorded history cedes to speculative history.
• Koebler, Jason (February 11, 2025). "Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies". 404 Media. Retrieved February 15, 2025. In a series of calls and letters to the Wikimedia community over the last two weeks, Wikimedia executives have told editors that they are trying to figure out how to keep their users safe in an increasingly hostile political environment.
• Rao, Devika (February 13, 2025). "Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding". The Week. Retrieved February 15, 2025. Many worry that Wikipedia contributors could be targeted next. According to documents obtained by the independent news organization Forward, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank responsible for Project 2025, wants to "use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors to the online encyclopedia, who mostly work under pseudonyms." It is not yet clear what the organization would do after identifying the contributors."
• "Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation accused of targeting Wikipedia editors". Moneycontrol.com. February 13, 2025. Retrieved February 15, 2025. In response, Wikimedia is rolling out new security measures. One major change is the temporary accounts program, which will prevent unregistered editors' IP addresses from being visible to the public.
• Ro, Christine (February 19, 2025). "Why these scientists devote time to editing and updating Wikipedia". Nature. Retrieved February 20, 2025. Overall, Wade says, "there's a bunch of old-school scientists who don't think this kind of science communication is credible". Yet, she stresses that Wikipedia editing is easy and rewarding, and a useful way to contribute to research culture.
• Vetter, Matthew A.; Jiang, Jialei; Zachary J., McDowell (February 19, 2025). "An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability". AI & Society. Retrieved February 23, 2025. Ultimately, this article calls for greater transparency and accountability in how big tech entities use open-access datasets like Wikipedia, advocating for collaborative frameworks prioritizing ethical considerations and equitable representation.
• Chandonnet, Henry (February 21, 2025). "How Wikipedia became a political lightning rod". Fast Company. Retrieved February 23, 2025. The culture wars have come for our public information sources. And Wikipedia is on the chopping block.
• "Wikipedia under fire again: Economist Sanjeev Sanyal says his profile altered using 'circular referencing'". Business Today (India). February 23, 2025. Retrieved February 23, 2025. In November 2024, the Indian government reportedly formally raised concerns over bias and inaccuracies on the platform, citing complaints about a small group of editors exerting disproportionate influence over content neutrality. India Today reported that the government questioned whether Wikipedia should continue being classified as an intermediary or be held accountable as a publisher.
• Mojid, Muhammad Ibrahim (February 25, 2025). "Sylheti Wikipedia starts its journey". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved February 25, 2025. On February 14, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and language committee approved the proposal of Sylheti Wikipedia.

March

• Rowe, Willa (March 1, 2025). "This free interactive museum lets you explore Wikipedia like never before". Digital Trends. Retrieved March 14, 2025. That feeling of getting lost in the information rabbit hole is a quintessential Wikipedia experience that most people are familiar with.
• Dunbar, Jon (March 3, 2025). "Wikipedia list sheds light on Korea's historic restaurants". The Korea Times. Retrieved March 10, 2025. He added that he prefers to keep his anonymity because he sometimes writes on contentious topics. He cited a massive defamation lawsuit filed last year by the government of India against the Wikimedia Foundation, and a more recent report about the conservative U.S. Heritage Foundation's plans to "identify and target" volunteer editors on Wikipedia.
• Talbot, Margaret (March 4, 2025). "Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 4, 2025. But Wikipedia has proved remarkably resilient. Wales has stressed that the site is not for sale. And for two decades, a long time in tech years, it has stayed true to its crowdsourced, democratic ethos and to its commitment to facts. In 2025 America, that counts as a beacon of hope.
• Templer Olaiya, Tope (March 5, 2025). "On IWD, Wikimedia Foundation celebrates contributors closing gender gaps on Wikipedia". The Guardian. Retrieved March 6, 2025. Wikipedia depends on the availability of existing published sources to verify the facts in its articles. But, because women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge, many of these knowledge gaps are present on Wikipedia.
• Ramirez, Martha (March 6, 2025). "Who's Funding Wikipedia and Why Is It Under Attack?". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved March 6, 2025. As these attacks continue, it's more important than ever for funders to continue supporting and safeguarding organizations that foster learning. Only then can we ensure that in the future, Wikipedia, and free knowledge on the web in general, don't share the fate of the great Library of Alexandria.
• Murphy, Margi (March 7, 2025). "Wikipedia Roiled With Internal Strife Over Page Edits About the Middle East". Bloomberg News. Retrieved March 7, 2025. Ongoing war and other conflicts in the Middle East have spilled onto the pages of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where volunteer editors who maintain the website are sparring over how to frame recent events. At least 14 editors have been barred from working on pages related to the topic, Jewish organizations are claiming bias, and the conflict has reached the top levels of Wikipedia as the site's two founders, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, are at odds over whether to unmask the anonymous editors involved in the turmoil.
• Parks, Kristine (March 7, 2025). "Wikipedia co-founder calls on Elon Musk to investigate government influence over online encyclopedia". Fox News. Retrieved March 7, 2025. With the new Trump administration's goal to tackle waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, Sanger sees a prime opportunity for DOGE to take another look at Wikipedia. He believes there's evidence to raise questions about potential government influence on the website and warned there could be foreign influence from China or Russia on the website as well.
• Mcclure, Gwen (March 7, 2025). "Wikipedia, a surprising repository of fact". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved March 7, 2025. Every second, more than 8000 people read Wikipedia. Every minute, there are about 350 edits to the site. It's the most-read reference ever. This, of course, is according to Wikipedia - a sentence that would have been unlikely to appear in an article even a few years ago. But in a world where Meta has removed fact-checkers and AI gives laughably inaccurate answers, Wikipedia has emerged as a surprisingly reliable and increasingly respected source of information.
• Ferran-Ferrer, Núria (March 7, 2025). "Wikipedia has a huge gender equality problem – here's why it matters". The Conversation. Retrieved March 7, 2025. As we mark International Women's Day, it's high time we examined the barriers that keep Wikipedia from achieving true equity, and the efforts being made to close this digital divide.
• "Want to learn how to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia?". Times of Malta. March 8, 2025. Retrieved March 9, 2025. The initiative is part of a longer-term collaboration between Times of Malta and Wikimedia Community Malta which sees academic Toni Sant serve as Times of Malta's Wikimedian-in-Residence. As part of that collaboration, Times of Malta will be making a number of photos from its historic photo library available on Wikipedia for public use under a Creative Commons Licence.
• Roscoe, Jules (March 10, 2025). "Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits". 404 Media. Retrieved March 10, 2025. This portrait problem stems from Wikipedia's mission to provide free reliable information. All media on the site must be openly licensed, so that anyone can use it free of charge. That, in turn, means that most photos of notable people on the site are of notably poor quality.
• Mayron, Sapeer (March 11, 2025). "Wikimedians, unite: The people ensuring NZ's stories are on Wikipedia". The Post. Retrieved March 18, 2025. Auckland Museum has been working alongside Wikipedia for a while, but especially closely since 2020. Their team keeps track of how often articles about their collections are looked at online: 60 million views a year on Wikipedia, compared with 600,000 on the museum's own website.
• Merid, Feven (March 13, 2025). "Wikipedia's Reluctant Resisters". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 18, 2025. But if the common feeling in the room was that Wikipedia wasn't under existential threat, the editors still felt vulnerable.
• Nair, Pooja (March 13, 2025). "Malayalam finds a place in Wikipedia's article writing contest on Islamic heritage". The New Indian Express. Retrieved March 18, 2025. Wikipedia's goal: 5,000 new articles. But beyond the numbers, the project is about preserving heritage and making knowledge accessible to all.
• Jamal, Ummar (March 17, 2025). "Courts have to be tolerant: Supreme Court on Delhi HC's takedown order against Wikipedia in ANI case". Bar and Bench. Retrieved March 18, 2025. The issue arose after ANI sued Wikipedia for defamation alleging that the platform allowed defamatory edits by certain users referring to the news agency as a "propaganda tool" for the present Central government.
• hrivastava, Amisha (March 17, 2025). ""Why Touchy About Comments On Court Proceedings?" Supreme Court On Delhi HC Order To Remove Wikipedia Page On ANI's Defamation Suit". LiveLaw.in. Retrieved March 18, 2025. Subsequently, on November 11, 2024, the Delhi High Court closed Wikimedia's appeal against the single judge's order directing disclosure of the individuals' subscriber details. This came after both parties entered into a consent order resolving the matter.
• "'The question is about freedom of media': SC issues notice to ANI after Wikipedia plea". Newslaundry. March 17, 2025. Retrieved March 18, 2025. In October, the Delhi High Court described Wikipedia's model as "dangerous", complaining that "anyone can edit a page". It also ordered the take down of a Wikipedia page titled "Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation" which contains details on the ongoing case.
• "Editing for Hate: How Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Bias Undermines Wikipedia's Neutrality". Anti-Defamation League. March 18, 2025. Retrieved March 18, 2025. ADL has found clear evidence that a group of at least 30 editors circumvent Wikipedia's policies in concert to introduce antisemitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and misleading information.
• Deutch, Gabby (March 18, 2025). "ADL report finds 'malicious' Wikipedia editors conspired to impose anti-Israel bias across site". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved March 20, 2025. On pages dedicated to major historical events, like several Israel-Arab wars or peace negotiations, editors would make "extensive edits" in "tone, content and perspective" to advance an anti-Israel narrative, the report found.
• Weiss, Debbie (March 18, 2025). "'Malicious' Wikipedia Editors Manipulated Site's Coverage of Israel, ADL Report Alleges". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved March 20, 2025. The ADL report did not call for abandoning Wikipedia but warned users to be skeptical of politically sensitive entries.
• Starr, Michael (March 18, 2025). "Wikipedia editor clique adding anti-Israel, antisemitic bias to pages, ADL study finds". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 20, 2025. The ADL said editors appeared to coordinate changing relevant pages, downplaying Palestinian antisemitism, violence, and calls to destroy Israel, and adding more criticism of Israel.
• Rosenberg, Michelle (March 19, 2025). "Wikipedia launches review after report alleges anti-Israel editorial manipulation". Jewish News. Retrieved March 20, 2025. Speaking to Jewish News, a spokesperson at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia said: ... "Though our preliminary review of this report finds troubling and flawed conclusions that are not supported by the Anti-Defamation League's data, we are currently undertaking a more thorough and detailed analysis. It is unfortunate that we were not asked to provide context that might have helped allay some of the concerns raised."
• Schneider, Dan; Olohan, Tom (March 19, 2025). "How biased Wikipedia trashed Trump's nominees — after he named them". New York Post. Retrieved March 20, 2025. In its latest act of partisan truth-twisting, Wikipedia took a blowtorch to the reputations of President Donald Trump's nominees for his Cabinet. The partisan ploy failed to derail them, but it exposed the sinister agenda that informs everything the online encyclopedia touches.
• Duffy, Clare (March 20, 2025). "The ADL says Wikipedia contains antisemitic bias, amid dispute over how the Israel-Hamas conflict is represented on the site". CNN. Retrieved March 21, 2025. Since that decision, "the ADL has continued to misrepresent Wikipedia's well-established guidelines, policies, and enforcement mechanisms that effectively address the issues outlined in the report and its recommendations," the Wikimedia Foundation said in its statement.
• Domanick, Andrea (March 21, 2025). "Wikipedia volunteers aim to preserve the history of L.A. landmarks destroyed in fires". NPR. Retrieved March 22, 2025. For five hours, two dozen or so volunteers congregate over laptops, cups of coffee and doughnuts iced with the Wikipedia logo. They're writing new entries for places lost in the fires, adding citations, updating information and uploading photos.
• Khan, Feroz (March 22, 2025). "The Heroic Photographers Fixing Bad Celeb Portraits On Wikipedia". The Phoblographer. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Have you ever wondered why there's a sea of differences between the celebrity portraits seen on IMDb as compared to those on Wikipedia? It turns out many of us have been scratching our heads over the same.
• "Assam: Wikipedia workshop on Assamese held at Bodoland University". The Sentinel. March 22, 2025. Retrieved March 22, 2025. The workshop covered various topics, including basic training on page editing, creating articles on Wikipedia, incorporating references, and understanding Wikipedia's layout and formatting. Thirty-seven students and researchers participated in the event.
• Singh, Brijesh (March 23, 2025). "Deconstructing Wikipedia: It's biased, lopsided and partisan". The Sunday Guardian. Retrieved March 22, 2025. For example, discussions about Hindu religious practices frequently center around Western feminist or secular critiques rather than incorporating viewpoints from Hindu practitioners themselves. This creates a situation where content about Hinduism may emphasize aspects like caste systems or gender inequalities while minimizing its philosophical depth or cultural significance to Indian society.
• Bandler, Aaron (March 25, 2025). "Wikipedia Editors Blacklist Heritage Foundation Following Report of Plan to Unmask Antisemitic Editors". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved March 26, 2025. In response to The Forward article, Wikipedia editors launched a discussion known as Request for Comment (RfC) on Jan. 8 how editors should treat the think tank's reliability going forward.
• "Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Enhancing the Discoverability of Women's History". Smithsonian Institution. March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 26, 2025. Wikipedia is a vital link within the network of online information. Women with articles in Wikipedia are easier to find. We'll boost the discoverability of these women by creating and editing articles in Wikipedia. Help us share the stories of women musicians, fiber artists, journalists, doctors and more.
• Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra (March 28, 2025). "Wikipedia Built the Internet's Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit". The New York Observer. Retrieved March 29, 2025. As Wikipedia becomes more central to the infrastructure A.I., the organization is grappling with rising bot traffic, the need for attribution and how to sustain its ecosystem in the face of powerful new users.
• Fraser, Graham (March 29, 2025). "Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures". BBC. Retrieved March 29, 2025. Some enthusiasts launched WikiPortraits, a project to recruit a group of volunteer photographers around the world and get them accreditation to attend film festivals, conferences and other events.
• "Wikipedia vs ADL continues: Report claims dangerous bias, urge policymakers to act quickly before..." The Times of India. March 31, 2025. Retrieved March 31, 2025. The tension traces back to last year when Wikipedia editors deemed the ADL "generally unreliable" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict due to its dual advocacy and research roles, though still "generally reliable" elsewhere.

April

• "The Depths of Wikipedia Bluesky account is a treasure trove of trivia – 22 favourites". The Poke. April 1, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025. Over on Bluesky, the Depths of Wikipedia account curates some absolute treasures from the open-collaboration encyclopaedia.
• Thapliyal, Nupur (April 2, 2025). "Delhi High Court Orders Removal Of Allegedly Defamatory Description Of ANI On Its Wikipedia Page". LiveLaw. Retrieved April 2, 2025. In its suit against Wikimedia Foundation and its officials, ANI has said that the former has allegedly published palpably false and defamatory content with malicious intent of tarnishing the news agency's reputation and to discredit its goodwill.
• "Delhi High Court orders Wikipedia to remove edits on ANI page". Newslaundry. April 2, 2025. Retrieved April 2, 2025. In October, the Delhi High Court had described Wikipedia's model as "dangerous", complaining that "anyone can edit a page". It also ordered the take down of a Wikipedia page titled "Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation" which contains details on the ongoing case. Wikipedia took the page down but also moved the Supreme Court.
• Kan, Michael (April 2, 2025). "Wikipedia Faces Flood of AI Bots That Are Eating Bandwidth, Raising Costs". PCMag. Retrieved April 2, 2025. In response, Wikipedia's site managers have imposed "case-by-case" rate limiting for the offending AI crawlers, or even banned them. But to address the problem over the long-term, the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a "Responsible Use of Infrastructure" plan, which notes the network strain from AI bot scrapers is "unsustainable."
• Ghosh, Sohini (April 4, 2025). "In a first, Delhi High Court directs Wikipedia to remove 'defamatory' content on news agency ANI". The Indian Express. Retrieved April 4, 2025. "Defendant No.1 [Wikimedia Foundation Inc] professes itself to be an encyclopaedia and people at large have a tendency to accept the statements made on the web pages of Defendant No.1 as gospel truth. The responsibility, therefore, of Defendant No.1 is higher," [the court] stated.

See also

• WP:Wikipedia in blogs
• WP:Wikipedia on TV and radio
• WP:Press coverage of health information