Scholar calls on academics to defend Wikipedia's open knowledge community
What happened
On October 21, Hacker News featured Helen Choi's argument that university scholars, as knowledge producers and educators, have an ethical duty to defend and support open knowledge communities such as Wikipedia. The report notes that generative AI products often cite Wikipedia links, but most users no longer click through, so Wikipedia keeps losing readers. Wikipedia is run by a volunteer community, and its readers are where those volunteers come from.
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- Hacker News front pageAcademics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
Helen Choi 主张，高校学者作为知识生产者与教育者，有伦理责任捍卫和支持 Wikipedia 等开放知识社区。生成式 AI 产品虽常引用 Wikipedia 链接，但多数用户不再点击，导致其读者持续流失，而 Wikipedia 由志愿者社区运营、读者正是志愿者来源。
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