I don't understand why Wikipedia would fall under Category 1. Am I looking at the wrong thing, or does the definition in 3.(1) not require the service to use an algorithmic recommendation system (which Wikipedia does not do)?
> Definition of content recommender systems: Having any “algorithm” on the site that “affects” what content someone might “encounter”, is seemingly enough to qualify popular websites for Category 1. As written, this could even cover tools that are used to combat harmful content. We, and many other stakeholders, have failed to convince UK rulemakers to clarify that features that help keep services free of bad content — like the New Pages Feed used by Wikipedia article reviewers—should not trigger Category 1 status. Other rarely-used features, like Wikipedia’s Translation Recommendations, are also at risk.
> Content forwarding or sharing functionality: If a popular app or website also has content “forwarding or sharing” features, its chances of ending up in Category 1 are dramatically increased. The Regulations fail to define what they mean by “forwarding or sharing functionality”: features on Wikipedia (like the one allowing users to choose Wikipedia’s daily “Featured Picture”) could be caught.
Everybody including the judges seem to agree this is dumb but it's the current law.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=...
It's a large number of templates doing transclusions.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion
You can have snippets like this
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_a...
Which shows up on the main page under featured article, and these pages are prepared by humans Just In Time:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%2...
A website where everything happens in public -including all the editing- is still kind of cool and relatively unique, even in 2025!.
And most pages are a bit less complicated to handle than this. But the main page obviously gets a lot of attention.
they would at least want to block the UK from accessing it first?