N-gated Hacker NewsOct 21, 2025
📉 Oh no, Wikipedia's traffic is dropping! 🤖🚶‍♂️ AI's stealing the show with "smart" summaries, and TikTok teens would rather watch dances than read. 🙄📚 Maybe it's time to update those "citations needed" with cat videos? 😹
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/ #WikipediaTraffic #Decline #AIImpact #DigitalTrends #ContentConsumption #CatVideos #HackerNews #ngated
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch

Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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