Wikipedia was founded by two internet entrepreneurs Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales back in 2001. It was intended as a free open access encyclopaedia, written, edited and maintained by volunteer contributors. The founders hoped this method would continually improve the quality, relevance, and accuracy of Wikipedia’s contents. Sanger and Wales wrongly believed that under such circumstances no central organization or group could control its content. Wikipedia once aimed to avoid bias and maintain a neutral point of view.

Over the last two decades, Wikipedia challenged Microsoft’s Encarta and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Although Wikipedia was resisted by academics as a legitimate source of information in education, it is now the ‘go to’ resource for students around the world. Wikipedia has over 1.5 billion unique visitors per month.

The recent revelations of past “tweets’ by Kathrine Maher during her tenure as Wikipedia Foundation CEO (now NPR CEO), has caused some alarm over the integrity of Wikipedia. Maher’s achieve on X (Twitter) of over........

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