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20/10/2025
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Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The foundation works to distinguish between traffic from humans and bots, and Miller writes that the decline โover the past few monthsโ was revealed after an update to Wikipediaโs bot detection systems appeared to show that โmuch of the unusually high traffic for the period of May and June was coming from bots that were built to evade detection.โ
Why is traffic falling? Miller points to โthe impact of generative AI and social media on how people seek information,โ particularly as โsearch engines are increasingly using generative AI to provide answers directly to searchers rather than linking to sites like oursโ and as โyounger generations are seeking information on social video platforms rather than the open web.โ (Google has disputed the claim that AI summaries reduce traffic from search.)
Miller says the foundation welcomes โnew ways for people to gain knowledgeโ and argues this doesnโt make Wikipedia any less important, since knowledge sourced from the encyclopedia is still reaching people even if they donโt visit the website. Wikipedia even experimented with AI summaries of its own, though it paused the effort after editors complained.
Read More: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
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