The Generosity Of Strangers Built Wikipedia. At 25, It Needs A New Generation

At 25, Wikipedia is the invisible engine behind every AI answer—built by 250,000 unpaid strangers. Inside the campaign ...
New York Magazine

Wikipedia Seems Pretty Worried About AI

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.
Observer

Wikipedia Reports Traffic Decline as A.I. Changes How Users Seek Information

The popular online encyclopedia blamed A.I. for a dip in human views. Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online ...
Gizmodo

AI Is Killing Wikipedia’s Human Traffic

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, says that shifts in how people search for information online are cutting into its human traffic. In a blog post published today, Marshall ...
The New York Times

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia

The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online ...
New York Post

Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content — relying on human editors for bot detection

The internet’s favorite encyclopedia has officially banned its 260,000 human editors from using artificial intelligence to write articles — a major crackdown as so-called “AI slop” floods the web. The ...
TechCrunch

Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial ...