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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by bee_rider on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:47PM (#45663688)
Wikipedia seems like a pretty good candidate for a seed vault style “let’s make sure this gets really backed up” type project.
Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by SchemaLoad on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:51PM (#45663716)
There are a million backups of wikipedia. That's not the main issue, it's the future of the project. If the main org goes down, there will be a million forks of it where none of them have the same legitimacy of the original, edits will die off, views will die off, and the content will become increasingly stale and vandalised.
Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by fc417fc802 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:50PM (#45664072)
I see that as an argument for serious research effort into systems of decentralized governance. A project like Wikipedia shouldn't need a centralized community or a singular centralized host. Unfortunately "web of trust" doesn't seem like it will be resolved in a robust manner anytime soon.
Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by monissiddiqui on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:40PM (#45684592)
You are on the way to the religion pill
Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by sznio on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:15AM (#45682061)
in my opinion, such a scenario would end up with a few weeks/months of chaos, before converging on two-three main forks.