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Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, an online community of individuals interested in building and using a high-quality encyclopedia in a spirit of mutual respect. Therefore, there are certain things that Wikipedia is not.
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, but a digital encyclopedia project. Other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page, there is no practical limit to the number of topics Wikipedia can cover or the total amount of content. However, there is an important distinction between what can be done, and what should be done, which is covered in the Encyclopedic content section below. Consequently, this policy is not a free pass for inclusion: articles must abide by the appropriate content policies, particularly those covered in the five pillars.
Keeping articles to a reasonable size is important for Wikipedia's accessibility, especially for dial-up and mobile browser readers, since it directly affects page download time (see Wikipedia:Article size). Splitting long articles and leaving adequate summaries is a natural part of growth for a topic (see Wikipedia:Summary style). Some topics are covered by print encyclopedias only in short, static articles, but Wikipedia can include more information, provide more external links, and update more quickly.
Information should not be included in this encyclopedia solely because it is true or useful. An encyclopedia article should not be a complete exposition of all possible details, but a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject.[1] Verifiable and sourced statements should be treated with appropriate weight. Although there are debates about the encyclopedic merits of several classes of entries, consensus is that the following are good examples of what Wikipedia is not. The examples under each section are not intended to be exhaustive.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, or a usage or jargon guide. Wikipedia articles are not:
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Wikipedia is neither a mirror nor a repository of links, images, or media files.[3] Wikipedia articles are not merely collections of:
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- Hi, Its Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology - McSweeneys Internet Tendency - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Watch Wikipedia Founder Wales Explores Trust in the Digital Age - Bloomberg.com - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- He co-founded Wikipedia. Now hes inspiring Elon Musk to build a rival. - Yahoo - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- 'An astonishing situation': Wikipedia co-founder bashes Trump's latest attacks on trust - rawstory.com - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Trust and empathy should be baked into tech from the start, says Wikipedia co-founder - marketplace.org - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musks Grokipedia copying Wikipedia? Here's all you need to know about the AI-powered encyclopedia - The Economic Times - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Explained: What is Elon Musks Grokipedia and how it differs from Wikipedia - The Federal - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Grokipedia Vs Wikipedia: How Is The Elon Musk's AI-Powered Rival Different From The Encyclopedia? - Mashable India - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musks xAI launches AI-powered Grokipedia database to replace Wikipedia - The Hindu - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Grokipedia is online: Elon Musk's AI encyclopedia wants to crush Wikipedia - Cointribune - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musks Grokipedia Takes Aim at Wikipedia Truth Revolution or Biased Echo Chamber? - ts2.tech - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musks Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Heres What the Difference Is - Gizmodo - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist: Is Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia less biased as he claims? - theweek.in - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musks Wikipedia Alternative Grokipedia Goes Live: Heres How To Use It - NDTV Profit - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia - Science and Culture Today - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Elon Musk launches rival to challenge Wikipedia; Here's all you need to know about this - DNA India - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- GROKIPEDIA IS ALREADY MORE ACCURATE THAN WIKIPEDIA AND IT SHOWS Grokipedia just proved why it is rewriting how knowledge works online. Look at how it... - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Nothing But The Truth: Will Elon Musk's Grokipedia Deal A Death Blow To 'Woke' Wikipedia? - News18 - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Grokipedia launched by Elon Musk to take on Wikipedia: Heres how to use it, new AI features, early controversy, and more - financialexpress.com - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Grokipedia Debuts: Elon Musks AI-Powered Alternative to Wikipedia - parameter.io - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- The Wikipedia Page on "Brain Rot" Is Protected Until 2026 Due to Extensive Vandalism - Futurism - October 26th, 2025 [October 26th, 2025]
- 'I was very nervous at first' - how the founder of Wikipedia learnt to embrace trust - RNZ - October 26th, 2025 [October 26th, 2025]
- A Wikipedia cofounder is fueling the rights campaign against it - The Washington Post - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Where does Wikipedia go in the age of AI? - Financial Times - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sangers long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the worlds dominant online encyclopedia are being... - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Grokipedia was supposed to rival Wikipedia but Elon Musk pulled the plug (for now) - Tom's Guide - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Murdaugh: Death In The Family Owes More Than You Think To One Wikipedia Line - Screen Rant - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Wikipedia blames ChatGPT for falling traffic and claims bots are stealing its hard work - New York Post - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the crisis of trust in the age of Trump - Channel 4 - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Alabama-born co-founder of Wikipedia has a new book coming out this month - AL.com - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- Six weeks after deadline, House panel still awaits bias, Jew-hatred materials from Wikipedia parent - JNS.org - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- The 24 Wikipedia pages for NHL rivalries, ranked by their single wildest passage - The New York Times - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- From clicks to chat: Why Wikipedia sees fewer visitors in the AI era - Gulf News - October 21st, 2025 [October 21st, 2025]
- Wikipedia says AI is causing visitor numbers to plummet - The Independent - October 21st, 2025 [October 21st, 2025]
- Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video - TechCrunch - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Wikipedia Conference Disrupted by Gun Threat in NYC - Newsweek - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Even Wikipedia is hemorrhaging traffic to AI. - The Verge - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Wikipedia Views Down 8%: Are Bots and TikTok to Blame? - KnowTechie - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Man with gun arrested during Wikipedia conference in Union Square - FOX 5 New York - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Wikipedia reports decline in traffic as AI Summaries replace clicks - Times of India - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Heroic volunteers wrestle armed gunman draped in sick flag off stage during Wikipedia conference in New York - Daily Mail - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia's traffic - Engadget - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- A Conversation with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia - Welcome to the United Nations - October 17th, 2025 [October 17th, 2025]
- WIKIPEDIA CO FOUNDER: AI COMPETING TO WRITE ENCYCLOPEDIAS WOULD BE FASCINATING Wikipedia Co-Founder, Larry Sanger: "I think competition to write... - October 17th, 2025 [October 17th, 2025]
- Can humans and bots share the Internet? Wikipedia thinks so. - IBM - October 15th, 2025 [October 15th, 2025]
- Wikipedia Co-Founder Exposes the Online Encyclopedia's Extreme Biasand What You Can Do About It - The Daily Signal - October 13th, 2025 [October 13th, 2025]
- Wikipedia under fire: Why Ted Cruz and other conservatives are targeting the online encyclopedia - Diario AS - October 13th, 2025 [October 13th, 2025]
- Wikipedia's co-founder on anonymous editors, why the site is biased against conservatives and how to fix it - Fox News - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- Sen. Cruz Says Wikipedia Has Left-Wing Bias - Broadband Breakfast - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- The 40: Wesley on the Hunt, Senatorial Polling Trends, and Wikipedia Controversy - The Texan - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reveals heavy influence of anonymous accounts - Fox News - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- Wikipedia is one of the last sanctums of information on the internet - martlet.ca - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- Elon Musk to launch Grokipedia, a Wikipedia competitor. But what's the catch? - Cybernews - October 11th, 2025 [October 11th, 2025]
- Jessica Wade Wrote Thousands of Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM - Adafruit - October 9th, 2025 [October 9th, 2025]
- Meet the mystery editor behind most of the Wikipedia pages on South Korea - The Straits Times - October 9th, 2025 [October 9th, 2025]
- Wikipedia must be defended from the onslaught of AI - Diari ARA - October 9th, 2025 [October 9th, 2025]
- Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - Ars Technica - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Cruz presses Wikipedia on bias amid growing conservative criticism - The Hill - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Cruz presses Wikipedia to address concerns systemic bias is promoting left-wing ideology - Washington Examiner - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Meet the mystery editor behind most of the Wikipedia pages on Korea - The Korea Herald - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM - My Modern Met - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- ConfirmedElon Musk declares war on Wikipedia and creates Grokipedia, an AI-powered alternative developed by xAI - Unin Rayo - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Elon Musk launches Grokipedia: The response to Wikipedia arrives in two weeks - Cointribune - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Grokipedia: The Coming War with Wikipedia for the World's Knowledge - Hackernoon - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Conservatives Slam Wikipedia as 'Woke' And Its Own Co-Founder Agrees: 'It's Been Hijacked by the Left' - International Business Times UK - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Elon Musk Unveils Plans for Grokipedia, an Ai-Driven Alternative to Wikipedia - VINnews - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- The billionaire and the village square: Why both Wikipedia and Grok fall short in an age of epistemic power struggles - The Sunday Guardian - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Elon Musks Wikipedia? Grokipedia Version 0.1 Coming Up In 2 Weeks: How Will It Help You? - NDTV Profit - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Elon Musk xAI Set to Launch Wikipedia Alternative Grokipedia - TVC News - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Europe caves to bullies on speech, Yes, Wikipedia can be fixed and other commentary - New York Post - October 4th, 2025 [October 4th, 2025]
- Wikipedia co-founder says site has liberal bias heres his plan to fix that - Straight Arrow News - SAN - October 4th, 2025 [October 4th, 2025]
- Elon Musk decided to create his alternative to Wikipedia: xAI is already developing it - - October 4th, 2025 [October 4th, 2025]
- I Founded Wikipedia. Heres How to Fix It. - The Free Press - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- Jimmy Kimmel has nothing on Wikipedia when it comes to misinforming people - New York Post - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- The 3 building blocks of trustworthy information: Lessons from Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- Tilly Norwood already has a Wikipedia page, and not even the editors are sure what to call it - Fast Company - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- TUCKER CARLSON: WIKIPEDIA'S ANONYMOUS, UNTOUCHABLES ARE SHAPING AMERICANS' UNDERSTANDING Larry Sanger(Co-Founder of Wikipedia): "85% of the most... - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- MAGA Melts Down Over Wikipedia Blacklist - The Daily Beast - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- Elon Musk announces Grokipedia as Wikipedia alternative from xAI - Teslarati - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]
- Grokipedia will be Elon Musks version of Wikipedia - Notebookcheck - October 2nd, 2025 [October 2nd, 2025]