Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Wikipedia, the renowned online encyclopedia, has issued a stern appeal to AI companies on November 10, 2025. The nonprofit organization is urging these firms to use its paid API for accessing content, ...

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and support for contributors. Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer ...

When asked whether Wikipedia might consider blocking AI crawlers entirely, Wales acknowledged that it is a “possible but complicated” decision. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has urged major ...

Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia’s co-founder, Jimmy Wales, said on Wednesday, in a bid to help the firm monetise AI ...