Wikipedia has quietly underpinned the modern internet for a quarter of a century, yet the free encyclopedia has watched artificial intelligence companies feast on its pages without paying much of the bill.

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking ...

Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI

Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently published the findings of its research on student Wikipedia ...

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Since its introduction in 2001, Wikipedia has grown to host more than 19 million articles with 82,000 contributors in more than 270 languages. Wikipedia has 400 million unique viewers each month as of March 2011, According to ComScore, an Internet ...

As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about Wikipedia usage in February 2007. Education level continues to be the strongest predictor of Wikipedia use.