刊于 2026-01-15 05:30（原文标示）；若该时间为美国 Eastern Standard Time（UTC−5），则为 2026-01-15 13:30（UTC+8）。Wikipedia 满 25 周年，所处环境已从 2010 年 FBI 标志争议（以法律论证促使撤回）转为权力政治与不信任主导。Elon Musk（「Wokepedia」）与 Tucker Carlson（90 分钟节目）等高曝光批评者将 Wikipedia 描述为偏见平台；美国国会议员以「information manipulation」追问，使 Wikimedia Foundation 更倾向以克制的外交式回应处理冲突。
外部压力包含审查与合规要求：英国在 Online Safety Act 架构下提出对 Wikipedia 进行 age-gating；Saudi Arabia 出现 Wikipedia 编辑因记录人权议题而遭监禁；中国大陆持续封锁各版本。技术层面的抽取同步升高：AI bots 大规模抓取内容，频宽据报增加约 50%，使伺服器承压。社群内部亦出现老化与意义感流失的警讯；资深编辑 Christopher Henner 警告 Wikipedia 可能变成「temple」——年长志工维护内容，但读者与相关性下降。
流量与贡献者趋势构成主要量化警报。文章称 Wikipedia 在 2022–2025 期间每月流失超过 10 亿次访问（more than 1 billion visits per month），用户改以 AI chatbots 取得碎片化资讯；地方新闻崩解也减少可用可靠来源。志工补充正在恶化：2016–2025 的新注册用户下降超过三分之一（more than one-third）。Wikimedia 的应对包含向 Google、Meta 等争取 API 支持，并于 2024-10 推出 short-form video，已发布 800+ 支影片并累计 2,300 万次观看；Gen Z 编辑 Hannah Clover（23 岁）将编辑能力与生活成本压力连结。Jimmy Wales 称 Wikipedia 100 年后仍会存在，但文中结论是：若参与持续萎缩，Wikipedia 并非大到不会失败。
Published Jan 15, 2026 05:30 (as listed); if that is US Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5), it is Jan 15, 2026 13:30 UTC+8. Wikipedia turns 25 and faces a shift from the 2010 FBI-logo dispute—settled by legal argument—to a climate where power politics and distrust dominate. High-profile critics like Elon Musk (“Wokepedia”) and Tucker Carlson (a 90-minute episode) frame Wikipedia as biased, while US lawmakers probe “information manipulation,” pushing the Wikimedia Foundation toward cautious diplomacy.
External pressure includes censorship and compliance demands: proposed UK age-gating under the Online Safety Act, editor imprisonments in Saudi Arabia, and continued blocking in mainland China. Technical extraction is accelerating: AI bots scrape the site at scale, and bandwidth reportedly surged about 50%, stressing servers. Inside the community, veterans such as editor Christopher Henner warn of a “temple” dynamic—older volunteers maintaining work with declining readership and perceived relevance.
Usage and contributor trends are the core quantitative alarm. Wikipedia is described as losing more than 1 billion visits per month between 2022 and 2025 as users consume fragments via AI chatbots; local-news collapse further reduces source material. Volunteer replenishment is weakening: new registrations fell by more than one-third from 2016 to 2025. Wikimedia’s responses include seeking API support from firms like Google and Meta and launching short-form video in October 2024, publishing 800+ videos and reaching 23 million views; Gen Z editor Hannah Clover, age 23, links editing capacity to cost-of-living stress. Jimmy Wales predicts Wikipedia will still exist in 100 years, but the article argues it is not too big to fail if participation keeps shrinking.