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Wikipedia's human pageviews declined 8% over last year. Wikimedia Foundation attributes the trend to generative AI and social media. Bot detection was updated after unusually high traffic. Wikimedia ...

Wikipedia, the renowned online encyclopedia, has issued a stern appeal to AI companies on November 10, 2025. The nonprofit organization is urging these firms to use its paid API for accessing content, ...

LONDON -- Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it ...

Wikipedia says its traffic is down 8% in the last few months when compared to the same time last year. AI summaries and chatbots are using its data, but aren't bringing tons of people to its site or ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

Is ChatGPT just Wikiped-AI? After threatening to replace humans in many sectors, generative AI is now targeting online platforms as well. Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users ...

From finding a celebrity’s age to researching college essays, people have used Wikipedia as a free go-to source for decades. But now, AI is threatening the site’s donation-based revenue model—and ...

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.