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Hello and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host at Zittron. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia used by over a billion people a month,

one that despite being maintained entirely by an army of free and at times anonymous contributors,

remains one of the most reliable sources of information on the internet.

Wikipedia's 62 million articles are edited by over 100,000 contributors,

and these contributors have somehow done a better job

maintaining the quality and validity of the information

than any of the information provided by any of the major platforms today.

Wikipedia is funded entirely through the Wikimedia Foundation,

a non-profit organization funded through public donations and grants,

and has a staff of over 700 people.

Yeah, I'd argue most people have absolutely no idea how intricate the web's encyclopedia is.

And today I'm joined by Guerrilla Warfare,

a Wikipedia editor that's made over 130,000 edits in the span of 18 years across two accounts.

You'll likely know her better as researcher and critic Molly White, the creator of the citation needed newsletter, and Web 3 is going great.

All right, Molly, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

So, I don't know how else to ask this, but why should people actually care about Wikipedia today?

Well, I mean, I think Wikipedia is one of the highest quality resources there is on the

web today. I think everyone uses it, sometimes without even realizing it, given that Wikipedia

data powers so much of, you know, AI chat GPT responses or home assistants that are answering your questions or Siri.

And so I think keeping the quality of information on Wikipedia high or even improving it even

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