Re: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call (essay)

Hi James,

 Not sure how a community of volunteers would mesh into something like that
> though. And 99.9% of us would not directly be needed.
>

Yes, indeed, this is the core of the point.

We are not needed.

What's changing at present is that humans are no longer of much value in
creating tertiary sources*. LLMs now fulfill this function more
effectively. I am optimistic that humans will continue for some time to
have a leading role in primary and secondary sources.

If the Wikimedia mission is to continue, Wikimedia will need to do
something radically different than having humans read things and assemble
what they have read into articles, which has been our operating model to
date.

Chris

*(at least, for non-current events; at present LLMs are much slower to
respond to changes in the world than we are)

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