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 intelligence, thankfully.

Could artificial intelligence be the future of more reliable open-source encyclopedias like Wikipedia? A recent study in Nature Machine Intelligence suggests it might just be the answer. Researchers ...

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been ...

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet ...

An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages has been paused, following fierce backlash from its community editors. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind ...

The impact isn’t theoretical. The foundation says that when former US President Jimmy Carter died in December 2024, his Wikipedia page predictably drew millions of views.

Wikipedia’s edit and page-view metrics can demonstrate such impact. Meanwhile, reviewing and editing Wikipedia during a research project can help to highlight knowledge gaps, contextualize ...

Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop automated ... and there are few open datasets that have more impact than those hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation,” said ...

Amid concerns that AI could eventually impact jobs held by people today, especially in terms of content creation, Wikipedia indicates that it intends to use AI as a tool that makes people’s jobs ...