| ▲ | WD-42 2 days 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. |
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| ▲ | jowea 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The problem has more to do with editors. The theory is that less visits leads to less editors in the long run. |
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| ▲ | WD-42 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I 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 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s certainly true for stack overflow, but in their case the moderators were very active in getting the negative feedback loop going. | | |
| ▲ | reddalo 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Also, 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. |
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| ▲ | tyingq 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Visits drive revenue. Declining traffic is declining revenue. Not an issue yet, but eventually... |
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| ▲ | Ray20 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I saw statistics somewhere that Wikipedia ALREADY has enough money for centuries of work (if it stops spending them on promoting wokeism). |
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