When clicking on a Wikipedia page, users are often met with fundraising pleas that strongly imply the site is in dire need of funds to ensure its wealth of knowledge remains available to all. A closer look at the financials behind the website, however, reveals that the foundation running Wikipedia has enough surplus cash to bankroll groups responsible for inserting left-of-center viewpoints into its articles.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization responsible for administering Wikipedia, paid out more than $1 million in grants to groups that host mass-editing events aimed at introducing the perspectives of feminists and racial justice activists into the website’s articles, according to tax forms filed in April covering activities between July 2023 and June 2024. Wikiped

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