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Who cares if the traffic is declining? I don’t find Wikipedia useful because it gets lots of visits, I find it useful for the information it contains.
by WD-42 1y ago
Who cares if the traffic is declining? I don’t find Wikipedia useful because it gets lots of visits, I find it useful for the information it contains.
- jowea 1y agoThe problem has more to do with editors. The theory is that less visits leads to less editors in the long run.
- WD-42 1y agoI may be wrong, but I don’t think the people that edit Wikipedia are the same people that are content with half truths from LLMs and thus no longer visiting the site. So I kinda doubt it matters much.
- baq 1y agoThat’s certainly true for stack overflow, but in their case the moderators were very active in getting the negative feedback loop going.
- reddalo 1y agoAlso, Stack Overflow is a commercial website, while Wikipedia is a free (as in freedom) project. Editing Wikipedia feels like you're contributing towards "an ideal", that you're giving back something to humanity, instead of just helping somebody else getting richer.
- tyingq 1y agoVisits drive revenue. Declining traffic is declining revenue. Not an issue yet, but eventually...
- Ray20 1y agoI saw statistics somewhere that Wikipedia ALREADY has enough money for centuries of work (if it stops spending them on promoting wokeism).