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Wikipedia restricts AI use in articles
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Wikipedia restricts AI use in articles

Wikipedia editors voted 40 to 2 to ban LLMs from generating or rewriting article content.
Diya Lal · · 2 min read
Wikipedia founder says Musk’s Grokipedia poses no threat
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Wikipedia founder says Musk’s Grokipedia poses no threat

Wales emphasized that Wikipedia’s content is vetted by human volunteers and that AI outputs.
Diya Lal · · 2 min read
Wikipedia seeks AI licensing deal to cover rising costs
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Wikipedia seeks AI licensing deal to cover rising costs

While Wikipedia’s content remains free for individual use, for-profit firms training AI models create a disproportionate financial burden.
Aiko Gao Ishida · · 2 min read
Wikipedia pageviews drop 8% as users shift to AI, social media
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Wikipedia pageviews drop 8% as users shift to AI, social media

The foundation reclassified a spike in visits from Brazil as bot activity and is now enforcing stricter access policies.
Naomi Li Gan · · 2 min read
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Elon Musk plans Grok upgrades to improve Wikipedia, web accuracy

Musk mentioned the possibility of making this “cleaned-up” knowledge publicly available, suggesting it could take the form of a new resource.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 2 min read
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Wikipedia halts AI summary trial after editor backlash

The feature, tested earlier this month on the mobile app for 10% of opted-in users, aimed to provide brief article overviews.
Minh Le · · 3 min read
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Wikipedia to use AI tools without replacing human volunteers

AI tools will assist editors by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing access to information.
Minh Le · · 2 min read

Google partners with Wikipedia to translate content for Indonesians

Google intensifies its localization effort in Indonesia with a host of new product announcements.
Jaclyn Tiu · · 2 min read

US hackathon aims to find new ways of smuggling information into North Korea

The New York-based Human Rights Foundation is organizing an activist hackathon in San Francisco aimed at getting information safely into North Korea.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read

One telco in Myanmar wants free Wikipedia for all

As one of the two foreign companies being granted a nationwide telecom license by the Myanmar government, Norway-based telco Telenor announced its partnership with Wikipedia to launch a campaign called
Saiyai Sakawee · · 2 min read