Wikipedia talk:Threats to Wikipedia

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Declining editor numbers

Fixuture, I would nominate declining editor numbers (see WP:Encourage the newcomers). The latest Wikimedia Roadmap aims to charge for some mass downloads. HLHJ (talk) 02:26, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Generative AI may threaten Wikipedia in two ways:

Serving as an alternative to reading even a snippet from the encyclopedia, especially when trained using Wikipedia, and especially when integrated with search engines
Use to make low-quality contributions to the encyclopedia