{"id":515399,"date":"2025-10-20T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:58:12","slug":"wikipedia-sees-drop-in-traffic-as-ai-and-social-platforms-bypass-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515399\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia sees drop in traffic as AI and social platforms bypass links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/resources\/images\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-30 photo\" height=\"30\" width=\"30\" decoding=\"async\"\/>            Matthias Bastian<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" aria-label=\"Author Avatar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/resources\/images\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia is seeing fewer visitors:<\/strong> The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/diff.wikimedia.org\/2025\/10\/17\/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia\/\" data-type=\"editable-link\">Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> says page views have dropped by about eight percent compared to last year. The foundation points to generative AI tools and social networks that display Wikipedia content <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/pew-finds-that-only-1-percent-of-users-click-a-source-link-directly-from-googles-ai-overviews\/\" data-type=\"editable-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without sending users to the site<\/a>. Bots that increasingly resemble real users are also putting more strain on Wikipedia&#8217;s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wikipedia_pageviews_1025.png\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28258 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wikipedia_pageviews_1025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1153\" height=\"653\"\/><\/a>Image: Wikimedia<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Recommend our article<\/p>\n<p>        Share<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia remains a core source for training AI models, the foundation notes, but direct visits to the site are falling. If this trend continues, the project could face long-term risks. To respond, Wikimedia is working on new formats for younger audiences, better mobile editing, and clearer guidelines for how others can use Wikipedia content.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>25 years since its creation, Wikipedia\u2019s human knowledge is more valuable to the world than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia Foundation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Support our independent, free-access reporting. Any contribution helps and secures our future. Support now:<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" aria-label=\"Author Avatar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/resources\/images\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <a class=\"link-overlay\" href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/stanford-ai-experiment-storm-generates-wikipedia-style-articles\/\" aria-label=\"Stanford AI experiment \" storm=\"\" generates=\"\" wikipedia-style=\"\" articles=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                        \t\t\t<a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/stanford-ai-experiment-storm-generates-wikipedia-style-articles\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stanford-Storm-title-375x211.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Stanford AI experiment \" storm=\"\" generates=\"\" wikipedia-style=\"\" articles=\"\" width=\"1284\" height=\"722\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthias Bastian Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,53,16,15,168308,120112],"class_list":{"0":"post-515399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wiki","13":"tag-wikipedia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115408739960798257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}