Worth it Stage 1
Wikipedia remains one of the few large-scale platforms where the default experience is oriented toward readers and editors rather than ad load or engagement hacks. Funding via donations creates pressure, but the product is still overwhelmingly user surplus—messy governance and editor culture are real issues, not classic stage 3 extraction. Rated stage 1 with eyes open about internal politics.
- Since
- 2001
- Category
- Reference
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- wikipedia.org
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
100% kept
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 1 of 3
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- A2 Nonprofit or community-run
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy