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# State of Wikipedia report for May 2024
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/state-of-wikipedia-report-for-may-2024/
- Published: 2024-05-15T15:19:49.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-15T15:20:41.000Z
- Author: Josh Greene
- Tags: Agency, Insights, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:54

**This month’s Chaos Index is at 60, a 15% decrease from April.** However, that number is a bit deceptive; activity on Wikipedia remained fairly steady, though a few important factors played into May’s decrease.

**Most of this month’s decrease is attributable to a noticeable decline in new pages created and pages submitted through AfC**; this is most likely due to Wikipedia already having a long queue for AfC submissions, discouraging editors from submitting new pages until there are less pending submissions.

**Along with slower AfC responses, the queue for requested edits is incredibly long – and increased in May, due to a higher level of COI posts.** Wikipedia editors and admins are not responding to Talk page edit requests with their usual brevity; with over 130 pages in the queue dating back to February, this is a trend we are watching closely.

Recently, Google updated Chrome to include an opt-in for AI-powered results to search queries – and in our first tests with the product, one thing that’s abundantly clear is Google’s AI tools are operating much like its bots and crawlers, and using Wikipedia as a basis for much of the information being generated by its AI search summaries. As with knowledge panels, Google’s AI is prominently using information from Wikipedia – as well as company websites, prominent news organizations, and other ranking websites.

As always, context remains incredibly important with this nascent technology; different prompts will pull different keywords from a Wikipedia entry as it builds the result it presents to users. Which means having a clear, accurate Wikipedia page is as imperative as ever in 2024; letting a page sit outdated or inaccurate can always have incredibly negative effects on online reputation – an issue that only compounds as more large language models populate responses using the contents of the world’s largest digital encyclopedia as one of its primary sources.

*(The Chaos Index is a proprietary metric for measuring turbulence throughout Wikipedia and tracking the community’s current sentiment towards corporate-related pages. The index measures community actions such as editing frequency, content deletion, message board posts, and many other activities that contribute to unstable corporate page environments.)*

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