Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile

October 18, 2026 · 2:00 pm 1 sources

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• Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
  The Guardian · October 18, 2026 14:00
  Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago A few years ago, I was struck by the tension between how Wikipedia was used, and how it was talked about. Everyone was on it all the time, and yet its…