Somewhere right now, a Wikipedia editor is staring at a freshly created article about a mid-tier consulting firm, trying to ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...
Wikipedia volunteers threaten strike as Wikimedia Foundation dismantles Community Tech team amid union drive, risking the ...
Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer companies: stop scraping its pages and start using its paid API service. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the free online encyclopedia, has ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has urged major technology companies, including Google and OpenAI, to start paying for the extensive use of Wikipedia’s content in training artificial intelligence (AI ...