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Wikipedia Faces 8% Drop in Pageviews Amid AI Surge

10/24/2025

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Wikipedia reports an 8% decline in user pageviews this year, due to artificial intelligence (AI)-generated summaries in search results and social media.
Wikimedia Foundation's Marshall Miller says many users now favor social-video platforms.
He notes artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and search engines must drive traffic to Wikipedia to sustain its free knowledge model.
The decline could reduce volunteers and donors and follows reports that Google's algorithm changes harmed online publishers.

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Wikipedia reports an 8% decline in user pageviews this year, due to artificial intelligence (AI)-generated summaries in search results and social media.
Wikimedia Foundation's Marshall Miller says many users now favor social-video platforms.
He notes artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and search engines must drive traffic to Wikipedia to sustain its free knowledge model.
The decline could reduce volunteers and donors and follows reports that Google's algorithm changes harmed online publishers.