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Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Content forks |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=16 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing Justapedia |url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ |website=Quillette |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sato |first1=Mia |title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google |website=The Verge |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=13 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schaul |first1=Kevin |last2=Chen |first2=Szu Yu |last3=Tiku |first3=Nitasha |title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ |website=Washington Post |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Julie |title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinnosaar |first1=Marit |last2=Hinnosaar |first2=Toomas |last3=Kummer |first3=Michael |last4=Slivko |first4=Olga |title=Wikipedia matters |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 |website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy |access-date=21 November 2025 |pages=657–669 |language=en |doi=10.1111/jems.12421 |date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Neil |first1=Thompson, |last2=Douglas |first2=Hanley, |title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |doi=10.2139/ |date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/spaceil</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref>

Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Julie |title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinnosaar |first1=Marit |last2=Hinnosaar |first2=Toomas |last3=Kummer |first3=Michael |last4=Slivko |first4=Olga |title=Wikipedia matters |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 |website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy |access-date=21 November 2025 |pages=657–669 |language=en |doi=10.1111/jems.12421 |date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Neil |first1=Thompson, |last2=Douglas |first2=Hanley, |title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |doi=10.2139/ |date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 |url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Lunar Library: Genesis |url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lunar Library II |url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Galactic Legacy Archive |url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Galactic Legacy Archive |url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>

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 Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Content forks |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=16 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing Justapedia |url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ |website=Quillette |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sato |first1=Mia |title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google |website=The Verge |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=13 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schaul |first1=Kevin |last2=Chen |first2=Szu Yu |last3=Tiku |first3=Nitasha |title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ |website=Washington Post |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
-Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Julie |title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinnosaar |first1=Marit |last2=Hinnosaar |first2=Toomas |last3=Kummer |first3=Michael |last4=Slivko |first4=Olga |title=Wikipedia matters |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 |website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy |access-date=21 November 2025 |pages=657–669 |language=en |doi=10.1111/jems.12421 |date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Neil |first1=Thompson, |last2=Douglas |first2=Hanley, |title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |doi=10.2139/ |date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/spaceil</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref>
+Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Julie |title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinnosaar |first1=Marit |last2=Hinnosaar |first2=Toomas |last3=Kummer |first3=Michael |last4=Slivko |first4=Olga |title=Wikipedia matters |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 |website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy |access-date=21 November 2025 |pages=657–669 |language=en |doi=10.1111/jems.12421 |date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Neil |first1=Thompson, |last2=Douglas |first2=Hanley, |title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |doi=10.2139/ |date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 |url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Lunar Library: Genesis |url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lunar Library II |url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Galactic Legacy Archive |url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Galactic Legacy Archive |url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive |website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. |access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>
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