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From the April 18, 2024, NY Post'°, a generally unreliable source, of course:

Katherine Maher, [formerly the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation and now] the newly installed chief executive of National Public Radio [the well known bastion of balanced fair reporting representative of all Americans *cough cough*], said she sought to crack down on the “free and open” ethos at her previous job running Wikipedia because it was based on a “white male Westernized construct” that led to “exclusion of communities and languages.”...

In an interview that was cited by Christopher Rufo, Maher said that the idea of “free and open” was “recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that existed offline prior to the advent of the internet.”

Maher said that the “free and open” approach was problematic because it resulted in the “exclusion of communities and languages” where “the idea of a written tradition is [not] particular [to them].”...

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001, has said that the site can no longer be trusted because it has been taken over by left-wing “volunteers” who cut out news that doesn’t fit their agenda...

In [a] video, Maher said Wikipedia under her leadership “took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation” in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

She said that Wikipedia set up “sort of a clearinghouse of information” to deal with election- and pandemic-related content so that editors of the site could cooperate with the government to “identify threats.”

Maher also said that she viewed the First Amendment as “the number one challenge” because speech protections make it “tricky” to suppress “bad information” and the “influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it."

Note that this is personal commentary. Now I'm counting the hours until this is censored.