WIKIPEDIA'S -FREE KNOWLEDGE- WIDESPREAD : HONOURS PRECIS

' WIKIPEDIA is in peril '. So it is battling for the internet's soul. This largest online stockpile of free knowledge pins hope on an ex-diplomat.

In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front.

Elon Musk, at the fore, is singing accusations of political bias and anti semitism and has even questioned the site's nonprofit status.

Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia's resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

In Wikipedia's 25-year-history, it has never had to fight this hard.

The organization that supports the site, the Wikipedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square in New York City.

It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia's 65 million articles and throttling access to certain web scrapers.

And its expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation.

For an organization that holds neutrality as its  cardinal rule, it is a lot of conflict, requiring Wikipedia to go on the offensive - diplomatically, of course.

!WOW! thanks Tiffany Hsu.