Is Wikipedia’s fundraising truly necessary? You’ve likely encountered that pop-up on Wikipedia asking for donations, claiming that without your support, they might struggle to keep the site running.

The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit ...

Wikipedia halts its AI summary rollout after human editors raise concerns about credibility. Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries ...

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

Following a slew of complaints from editors, a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson confirmed to 404 Media that it’s pausing the two-week test, which began on June 2nd. The experiment put AI-generated ...

An analysis found that about 40% of over 1,000 randomly selected Wikipedia articles contain outdated or incorrect information ...

Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia's credibility.

A day later, after many, many editors continued to respond negatively to the idea, Wikimedia backed down and canceled its plans to add AI-generated summaries. Editors are the lifeblood of the platform ...

According to 404 Media, Wikipedia announced the opt-in AI pilot on June 2, which was set to run for two weeks on the mobile version of the site. The summaries appeared at the top of select articles in ...