Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

October 19, 2025

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Wikipedia is often described as rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-24/why-wikipedia-is-more-trustworthy-than-social-media”>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 rel=”nofollow” href=”https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/”>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 “over the past few months” was revealed after an update to Wikipedia’s bot detection systems appeared to…

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Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

October 19, 2025

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Wikipedia is often described as rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-24/why-wikipedia-is-more-trustworthy-than-social-media”>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 rel=”nofollow” href=”https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/”>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 “over the past few months” was revealed after an update to Wikipedia’s bot detection systems appeared to…

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