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Wikipedia founder ‘confident’ UK safety law concerns will be resolved

By Patricia Figueiredo ( July 25, 2025, 08:39 GMT | Comment) -- Wikipedia is confident a solution will be found to prevent UK online safety rules from disrupting its services in Britain, founder Jimmy Wales told MLex. As the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the UK Online Safety Act delays the rollout of the act’s categorization rules — which place additional regulatory duties on certain platforms — Wales said identity checks are "pretty impossible" under the platform’s core model of anonymity, but added that Wikipedia is "not threatening anything" as it expects regulator Ofcom and the British government to "figure out how to fix” this. He defended the timing of the case, and warned that national rules like the UK’s can have wider effects on how the nonprofit platform operates globally.Wikipedia is confident that a solution will be found so the UK Online Safety Act won’t disrupt its services, the online encyclopedia founder, Jimmy Wales, told MLex....

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