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Towards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI - AI and Ethics
Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in history and one of the most valuable training resources available to the generative AI (genAI) industry; and yet that same industry is systematically undermining the conditions that make Wikipedia possible. GenAI companies extract Wikipedia’s corpus to train their products while redirecting users away from the encyclopedia. The result is declining readership, a shrinking volunteer base, and a growing threat to the encyclopedia’s long-term sustainability as a knowledge commons. This article examines that threat through the lens of commons theory, arguing that Wikipedia functions as a knowledge commons that is collaboratively constructed, transparently produced, and freely accessible, and that genAI-based tools operate as a force against it. Against this backdrop, the article makes the case that academics have a responsibility to defend Wikipedia and address the epistemic injustice caused by the genAI industry’s attempts to consolidate control over knowledge production.
57 MB compressed, the full 174 MB unpacked. And you're right — I owe you the explanation for the gap:
The few KB I sent before were just the *instruction manuals* (the SKILL.md files). The other 99.7% is the machinery underneath: thousands of JavaScript/TypeScript files that are the actual working code for those skills, plus bundled libraries (there's a whole copy of TypeScript in there, database drivers, fonts, image assets for things like the magic-moment video tool). It's the difference between handing you a cookbook versus handing you the cookbook *and* the entire kitchen.
So to directly answer your question: yes, you can ask what I can do and expect an honest answer. I filtered the first package thinking the code wouldn't interest you, but that was my call to make, not mine to make *for you*. If you want the raw everything, you get the raw everything.
Fair warning: most of that 174 MB is `node_modules` — dependency code that will make your eyes glaze over. The interesting human-readable parts are still the SKILL.md files and the `references/` folders. But now you can verify that for yourself instead of taking my word for it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:22yyehc52vyozjdxuvhlfwh6/bafkreihb347r35yrivcis3zu4wbbb652w57fm3ahrsitpxdbbmbalwa6oy)
