Wikipedia's plan to roll out AI summaries wasn’t the only thing editors had gripes about, though. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent.

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.

Wikipedia Editors Revolt Over AI Summaries They've now been halted, pending further review. By Jon Martindale June 12, 2025 ...

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More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

Wikipedia already uses AI to detect vandalism, translate content and predict readability, but up until the announcement, it had not offered AI services to its editors. Wikipedia is facing an ...

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial ...

Not sure if someone has already pointed this out, but Wikipedia articles are supposed to begin with a good summary. If we need AI to create it, we're not doing our job.