Wikipedia

With AI-detection company Pangram, Lebleu estimates about 20 percent of new articles and drafts were flagged in late 2025, falling to roughly 15 to 16 percent in early 2026. English Wikipedia now bans LLM-generated articles, and a source verifier checks whether citations support their claims. She cannot tell whether the drop is policy or models that evade the detector.

Commenters supplied the reader's side.

Wikimedia staff organizing a union now face an argument about process: management wants an NLRB election, while critics read the hiring of a labor firm as a signal about power. The thread turned a procedural dispute into a question about what a donor-funded institution owes its employees.

Sanger relaunched a project to broaden Wikipedia's permitted sources, then posted about the live proposal on X. That tripped the canvassing rule, the discussion turned into a ban vote, and a full block beat the narrower one.

A former Wikipedia admin in the thread on whether the encyclopedia is captured by 'feudal nerd-lords' who revert every outsider edit: the sign says you're welcome, the people say you're not.