Lessons from Wikipedia

Lessons from Wikipedia

Keeping information reliable in the digital age

Wikipedia has evolved into one of the most trusted websites on the internet, and a main source of data for everything from ChatGPT to Siri to whatever you look up on your phone.

As we navigate an era where information integrity is more contested than ever, Wikipedia offers a living example of what it takes to build trust at scale.

Wikipedia’s systems show how collaboration and consensus, grounded in principles of neutrality and verifiability can create knowledge that people around the world rely on every day.

A new blog series from the Wikimedia Foundation—the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects—explains those systems, layer by layer, to share how Wikipedia really works and how it can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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