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

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A Guardian Technology piece notes that Wikipedia's 68 million articles have been consulted trillions of times and that the site has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago.

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“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.”
Guardian Technology, 18 Oct 2026, 14:00.

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