Wikipedia at 25: can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?

Citation

Galanos V (2026) Wikipedia at 25: can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?. Herd M (Editor) The Conversation. 14.01.2026. https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.v9kqvqwcr

Abstract
First paragraph: Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few publishers.

Keywords
Artificial Intelligence (AI); Wikipedia; Web 2.0; World wide web; Elon Musk; Jimmy Wales

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