The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, says that shifts in how people search for information online are cutting into its human traffic. In a blog post published today, Marshall ...

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

The popular online encyclopedia blamed A.I. for a dip in human views. Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online ...

Wikipedia's human pageviews declined 8% over last year. Wikimedia Foundation attributes the trend to generative AI and social media. Bot detection was updated after unusually high traffic. Wikimedia ...