If our Wikimedia vision is to imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge, we must begin to think about setting knowledge free and revolutionizing the long-standing models of power, privilege, and access. In 2019, we started the process to update Wikipedia’s desktop interface, with the goal of making it easier for everyone to use. It is a large and sometimes intimidating project, yet from the very beginning, three things became strikingly clear: