Whatever your feelings about it, we are heading into a somewhat different digital world thanks to AI. I'm ridiculously resistant to changing my habits, and even I am starting to consider keeping an AI chatbot open rather than Google for quick research. So really, it's little surprise that Wikipedia is apparently seeing fewer human pageviews lately.
That's according to Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation, who says that over the past few months, the site has seen a "decrease of roughly 8% as compared to the same months in 2024" in human pageviews. After updating its bot detection systems, the Foundation "found that much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May and June was coming from bots that were built to evade detection."
