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Wikipedia marks 25 years, remains ad-free and draws over 7 billion monthly visits — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Wikipedia marks 25 years, remains ad-free and draws over 7 billion monthly visits

Wikipedia celebrated its 25th anniversary on January 15 and remains ad-free while drawing over 7 billion visitors per month, Pcgamer reported. As Tom's Hardware noted, founder Jimmy Wales made the site's first edit on an iMac G3 on January 15, 2001. The nonprofit, user-driven reference site

Wikimedia to sell priority API access to AI companies; content stays free — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Wikimedia to sell priority API access to AI companies; content stays free

The Wikimedia Foundation is offering paid, enterprise-grade API access that gives AI companies priority access to Wikipedia’s data, and the foundation says the site’s content remains freely available. An update on January 16, 2026 corrected earlier wording that implied these deals licensed Wikipedia’s content; companies are paying