On the world’s free, collaboratively edited encyclopedia, even the co-founder is powerless to change his entry, for vanity ...

The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

An analysis found that about 40% of over 1,000 randomly selected Wikipedia articles contain outdated or incorrect information ...

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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit group that hosts, develops, and controls Wikipedia, has announced that it won’t be moving forward with plans to add AI-generated summaries to articles after ...

Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility. Often, the problem with AI-generated summaries is that they contain mistakes, the ...

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 is attempting to dissuade AI developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models.