Christophe Henner
long-time Wikipedian
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“What we’re witnessing is something more profound: a generational shift in how people relate to knowledge itself. Younger users don’t search. They scroll. They don’t read articles. They consume fragments. The encyclopedia form factor, our twenty-year bet, may be losing relevance faster than any single technology can explain. AI is an accelerant, not the fire.”
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Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
Wired excerpts Richard Cooke's book on Wikipedia's history. Cooke reports a ban on writing with large language models by March 2026 and a loss of almost a quarter of readers since 2022, and argues AI is one force in a longer decline of the encyclopedic age. It suggests Wikipedia's lasting value may be its process, not its contents.