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Spiceworks published an article that concludes "AI is quietly cannibalizing its own supply chain" of human curated information, including Wikipedia, used to train models. Spiceworks' interest? They are concerned that at some point, as AI search engines regurgitate more and more AI-derived information, and users shortcut the venues that would have resulted in corpora of interaction in the past, now users won't be able to do searches for technical help – hence the title "Is AI quietly killing the forums and wikis your IT team relies on?"

Separately, Adweek drives a similar point, in an interview of a Wikimedia Foundation executive. The Adweek article, "Inside Wikipedia's Plan to Survive the Answer Engine Apocalypse", says "ubiquity without attribution is an existential threat" to Wikipedia posed by AI driven search engine previews (like AI Overviews).

In the process of researching this article, The Signpost found a Grouse House speculative fiction animated comedy short video created by Mike Greaney, concerning Wikipedia's relationship to a future apocalypse. Released three years ago, before all the AI angst started in earnest, somehow it escaped the attention of In the media until now. Enjoy! – B

• Wiki rabbitholes discovered in Pendleton and Umatilla: According to the (East Oregonian) you can find rabbit holes almost everywhere. Author Billie Corsetti estimates that it only takes a minute for her to get distracted and click another blue link, leading to hours spent on Wikipedia.
• ...and Philly-something: https://www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/philly-fringe-2026-noam-osband-presents-wikipedilove (Broad Street Review)
• 'Edit-a-thon for high school students: Troy High School students in Fullerton, California moved next door to the Cal State U, Fullerton library according to the university's student paper, Daily Titan [https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/fullerton-high-school-students-edit-wikipedia-s-systematically-biased-stubs/article_70ca5f1a-982d-4122-87d0-56ffb5c8c43c.html
• Graphic history: "The mascots, design and visual history of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that puts functionality above aesthetics" is an article on the mostly graphic design–focussed website It's Nice That.

• More staying power than CB radio: History Today looks back on "25 Years of Wikipedia", transitioning from an institution that academics once disparaged by comparing it to a public lavatory, to a "grande dame" of the Internet according to no less a grande dame than The New York Times.
• FBI agent hangs probe of US President on Wikipedia article: At least in part, The Federalist says: an agent "tried to force" himself into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that began during the presidency of Barack Obama, and emailed his boss about the Wikipedia article Chain Bridge Bank to bolster his creds.
• 9/11 429, call 911: A HTTP 429 error for some users accessing wikipedia.org on 11 September triggered a story in Hindustan Times.
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To add a series of 'related articles' your article, use the following code Related articles Visual Editor Five, ten, and fifteen years ago 1 January 2023 VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief 5 August 2015 HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts 17 June 2015 VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates 29 April 2015 Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes 4 February 2015 More articles Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings 25 December 2013 Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more 6 November 2013 Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor 25 September 2013 Making Wikipedia more accessible 4 September 2013 Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia 28 August 2013 The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change 31 July 2013 Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles 31 July 2013 VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series 3 July 2013 VisualEditor will "change world history" 12 June 2013 VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more 12 June 2013 The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed? 25 March 2013 Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout 18 March 2013 Looking ahead to 2013 7 January 2013 The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual 10 December 2012 Second Visual Editor prototype launches 25 June 2012 Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised 19 December 2011 Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release 7 November 2011 {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = no }} or {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = yes }} will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box. Alternatively, you can use {{Signpost series |type = inline |tag = VisualEditor |tag_name = visual editor |tag_pretext = the }} at the end of an article to create For more Signpost coverage on the visual editor see our visual editor series. If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.