Wikipedia has faced political threats for years, but this time, it may be at a breaking point.

Republicans have ramped up attacks against Wikipedia as yet another “woke” institution. Leaked documents from the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that, show a plan for exposing specific Wikipedia editors. In January, Elon Musk, the billionaire-turned-government-efficiency-czar, called the online library an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” (He also once offered to pay $1 billion for the site if it changed its name to “Dickipedia.”)

Conservatives have long accused Wikipedia of political prejudice. (And it’s not just staunch Republicans: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger, who has never publicly identified himself as a Republican, acknowledged after he left in 2002, that if there was a liberal bias, it wasn’t nearly as bad as the criticism conservatives lobbed at it.) In 2006, critic Andrew........

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