Wikipedia has released its 11th annual list of the most-read articles of the year. In 2025, people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours reading English Wikipedia articles. The most popular entry?

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views ...

Wikimedia says human pageviews are down after revising bot detection, citing AI search and social platforms as likely factors. Wikipedia's human pageviews declined 8% over last year. Wikimedia ...

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 ...

new video loaded: What Wikipedia’s Co-Founder Searches For on Wikipedia transcript What was the last page you read on Wikipedia and what were you trying to find out? Oh, that’s a good question. Can I ...

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.

Citations in AI search assistants reveal how authority is evolving online. Analyzing results across 11 major sectors shows which domains are most often referenced and what that says about credibility ...

On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a ...

When I searched for “Working Genius framework” to research a new tool for my company, something shocking happened. The company behind the framework had to buy ads to show up for their own product.

Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

If you have spent time on Wikipedia—and especially if you’ve delved at all into the online encyclopedia’s inner workings—you will know that it is, in almost every aspect, the inverse of Trumpism. That ...