On August 12, 2026, Google Search briefly displayed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as deceased in his Knowledge Panel after a series of vandalized Wikipedia edits falsely claimed he had been assassinated. Goog…
At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, …
Workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, demanded voluntary recognition of their union, Wiki Workers United U.S., on Monday, citing concerns over jo…
Wiki Workers United's U.S. branch asked the Wikimedia Foundation for voluntary union recognition on July 20, saying a supermajority of eligible U.S. employees signed union cards and setting a July 24 …
Google's integration of generative AI into search, particularly AI Mode, is keeping users inside its ecosystem and starving external websites of traffic, with studies showing users never leave AI Mode…
A potential Wikipedia outage could create knowledge gaps in AI models like ChatGPT on cryptocurrency topics, as the platform's structured data is a key training source for large language models. The W…
Wikipedia editors are planning a strike and banner sabotage following the Wikimedia Foundation’s layoffs, which disbanded the team responsible for community-requested fixes and moderation tools. The r…
Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs, Amazon employees rendered its internal AI ranking system useless, Chinese courts began enforcing a framework barring AI-justified layo…
The Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber, its first employee and lead developer of MediaWiki since 2003, and disbanded the entire Community Tech team in mid-May, laying off mostly union organizers…
Wikimedia Taiwan Secretary-General Reke Wang represented the organization at the "Web Crawling Governance Policy Dialogue" convened by the Institute for Information Industry on May 20, 2026. Wang join…
The article, written by the operator of the wiki hosting service Weird Gloop, details how AI bots and crawlers are causing severe operational and financial strain on websites by consuming up to ten ti…
Infomaniak allocates a portion of its annual growth to fund nonprofit organizations working for social justice, biodiversity preservation, and environmental regulation, including Agent Green, a Romani…