Source: Quillette
by Russell T Warne
“For years, Wikipedia has been one of the informational backbones of the internet. With over seven million articles in the English version, Wikipedia is — by far — the largest repository of human knowledge ever collected. … Wikipedia has seen many challengers to its dominance, often motivated by its perceived inadequacies. … The reason Wikipedia’s challengers have been so feeble is that none of them have offered a new model that can accomplish Wikipedia’s purpose of delivering information to its users. All the competitors function the same way as Wikipedia: as a volunteer-driven community of users who update and expand the encyclopaedia through crowdsourcing. Without any major advantages in fulfilling the basic function of an encyclopaedia, editors and readers have little reason to defect from Wikipedia (or to stay if they do). Enter Grokipedia.” (04/11/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/04/11/ai-and-the-wiki-wars-grokipedia-wikipedia-elon-musk/