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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 ...
If you've ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to ...
On the world’s free, collaboratively edited encyclopedia, even the co-founder is powerless to change his entry, for vanity ...
An analysis found that about 40% of over 1,000 randomly selected Wikipedia articles contain outdated or incorrect information ...
Wikipedia’s verifiability policy means that readers should be able to check that the information comes from a reliable source, which is why articles are prone to have dozens of reference links ...
Wikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”—it says so right on the homepage.But editing Wikipedia articles can be pretty intimidating, especially for newbies.
The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic year after year — taking the #4 and #1 spots in 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Wikipedia also maintains an impressive level of influence, ranking as the seventh-most-visited website on the planet, with some 6.5 million articles that are updated at a rate of roughly two edits ...
At least in theory, the tool — lines of code that direct a search for Wikipedia articles that answer a chatbot query — gives users an improved, combinatory experience: the fluency and ...
Wikipedia's ChatGPT article is in the number 12 spot. It’s an interesting twist since ChatGPT is increasingly the place people go to perform the sort of searches they do on Wikipedia, ...