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Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted. Follow publication 25 Listen Share More What if there was a simple test to make sure every new internet regulation preserved the spaces and parts of the internet that you love the most? We get it; we really do. Lawmakers across the world are rightly focused on regulating powerful, for-profit platforms to mitigate the harms ascribed to social media and other threats online. When developing such legislation, however, some draft laws can inadvertently place public interest projects like Wikipedia at risk. At the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms, we have found that when a proposed law harms Wikipedia, in many cases it likely harms other community-led websites, open resources, or digital infrastructure. That is why we have created the Wikipedia Test: a public policy tool and a call to action to help ensure
The Wikipedia Test Wikimedia Foundation Policy 7 min read · Jun 20, 2025 -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size What if there was a simple test to make sure every new internet regulation preserved the spaces and parts of the internet that you love the most? We get it; we really do. Lawmakers across the world are rightly focused on regulating powerful, for-profit platforms to mitigate the harms ascribed to social media and other threats online. When developing such legislation, however, some draft laws can inadvertently place public interest projects like Wikipedia at r
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