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		bad_username 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search... My personal traffic to Wikipedia fell after around 2019, when activist editors took over, and the site ceased to be trustworthy for a lot of important topics.

zerd 6 months ago [–]

[citation needed]

Shocka1 6 months ago | [–]

I was curious too and found these pretty quickly - I dunno if this applies to all topics, but at least the political ones:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5022797

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/is...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241750096_Is_Wikipe...

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