On March 26th, 2026 with 32 comments
Wikipedia has banned the use of generative AI to write or rewrite articles, saying it "often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies." That said,...
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On March 6th, 2026 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to...
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On February 20th, 2026 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive...
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On January 22nd, 2026 with 34 comments
Ars Technica's Benj Edwards reports: On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic's Claude Code AI assistant that...
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On January 15th, 2026 with 51 comments
Wikipedia turns 25 today, and the online encyclopedia is celebrating that with an announcement that it has signed new licensing deals with a slate of major AI...
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On November 10th, 2025 with 51 comments
Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. From a report: In a...
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Index
On October 24th, 2025 with 237 comments
Larry Sanger, who helped launch Wikipedia in 2001 before being ousted by co-founder Jimmy Wales a year later, has spent years arguing the online encyclopedia...
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On October 17th, 2025 with 79 comments
A potential tragedy was narrowly averted at a Wikipedia conference in Manhattan when two volunteer editors tackled an armed man who stormed the stage and...
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On October 17th, 2025 with 92 comments
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online...
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On August 27th, 2025 with 37 comments
Wikipedia's volunteer editors have rejected founder Jimmy Wales' proposal to use ChatGPT for article review guidance after the AI tool produced error-filled...
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On August 18th, 2025 with 59 comments
Wikipedia volunteer Grnrchst uncovered a decade-long campaign that created articles about composer David Woodard in 335 languages. The investigation identified...
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On August 11th, 2025 with 54 comments
The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements for online platforms and...
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United Kingdom,
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On August 5th, 2025 with 31 comments
Wikipedia editors have adopted a policy enabling administrators to delete AI-generated articles without the standard week-long discussion period. Articles...
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On June 11th, 2025 with 67 comments
The Wikimedia Foundation halted an experiment that would have displayed AI-generated summaries atop Wikipedia articles after the platform's volunteer editor...
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On May 8th, 2025 with 16 comments
Wikipedia is taking legal action against the UK's new Online Safety Act regulations it says could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors and their...
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On April 30th, 2025 with 40 comments
Wikipedia will employ AI to enhance the work of its editors and volunteers, it said Wednesday, also asserting that it has no plans to replace those human...
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On April 26th, 2025 with 193 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that...
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On April 4th, 2025 with 73 comments
Web crawlers collecting training data for AI models are overwhelming Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024,...
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AI,
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On March 10th, 2025 with 29 comments
A volunteer group called WikiPortraits is working to address Wikipedia's issue of featuring outdated and unflattering portraits by providing high-quality,...
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Index
On December 4th, 2024 with 61 comments
Tuesday the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual list of the most-visited Wikipedia pages. (Scroll down to where it says "The full top 25"...)
But while...
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On November 5th, 2024 with 101 comments
India's government challenged Wikipedia's legal immunity as a tech platform on Tuesday, issuing a notice questioning whether the online encyclopedia should be...
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On October 11th, 2024 with 59 comments
A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, "a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated...
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On April 30th, 2024 with 243 comments
Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but...
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Censorship,
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On March 1st, 2024 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: For 20 years, a loosely organized group of Wikipedia editors toiled away curating a collection of 15,000...
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On March 1st, 2024 with 54 comments
Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET's reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content...
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On December 5th, 2023 with 12 comments
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the page on "ChatGPT" was the most-viewed English article on Wikipedia in 2023, attracting nearly 50 million page views....
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Wikipedia,
News,
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On April 28th, 2023 with 26 comments
Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says. From a report: Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Wikimedia...
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On April 3rd, 2023 with 100 comments
The Evening Standard interviewed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in a piece headlined "Will Wikipedia be written by AI?"
"The discussion in the Wikipedia...
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On February 28th, 2023 with 76 comments
The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million roubles ($27,000) by a Russian court on Tuesday after the authorities accused it of failing to delete...
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On February 22nd, 2023 with 35 comments
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit against the National...
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