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		bad_username 82 days 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 81 days ago [–]

[citation needed]

Shocka1 81 days 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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