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

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 ...

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 downgraded tech website CNET's reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content on the site's trustworthiness, as ...

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 ...

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

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 ...

Before generative AI, if you wanted an inexpensive way to build out lots of content, you launched a wiki.You’d spin up a site—broad or niche—and throw the doors open for anyone to edit. Be ...