Wikipedia has seen a decline in users this year due to artificial intelligence summaries in search engine results. The growing popularity of social media also contributes to the traffic decline, ...

Wikipedia has reported a sharp decline in traffic because bots that scrape information from the website are generating AI summaries for the major search engines that do not require web users to click ...

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.

Wikipedia isn't the only one in trouble. AI is also chomping away at news outlets' traffic: One study found that AI-generated overviews reduce clicks to outside sources by nearly 35 percent. Users now ...

Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with ...

The Wikimedia Foundation urged AI companies, developers and large-scale users to stop scraping Wikipedia’s web pages en-masse ...

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.

Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human ...

Researchers have recently unearthed a fascinating trend in the realm of AI-powered search engines. These advanced tools, developed by leading tech companies, are found to rely more on “less popular” ...

Wikipedia's co-founder on Elon Musk's Grokipedia, the debate over bias on Wikipedia, and rebuilding trust in a world awash in ...