Fun fact for readers of this post: Wikipedia has been a primary source of AI extraction for most of its existence, with major recognition of this research starting in 2011. link.springer.com/article/10.1.... What we are seeing now is the dream of 2000s "Wikinomics" materializing now.
![A diagram showing four main trajectories of Wikimedia research since 2005 that treated Wikipedia and its sister projects as a means to extract semantics; mapping the sociotechnics of social media; theorizing the commons, and enabling peer production. Extracting semantics has been the most cited angle of research about Wikipedia since 2021 [numbers based on the top ten most cited works in each angle].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zqb5qelnf3vvytfmqctbjtlu/bafkreigszr24wqyrhtekarchk3k6zredu745vem7sljycbcrefjw4a5w4i)
