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My friend @luis_in_brief has written a couple of good articles about Wikipedia's collapsing web traffic:

https://lu.is/2026/04/wikipedia-decline-by-topic/

https://lu.is/2026/04/wikipedia-career-cliff/

I especially appreciate this article about how Wikipedia's "flat" traffic growth over the last decade masks a precipitous decline in relative Web traffic:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Schiste/what-now

My former colleague Marshall Miller at WMF wrote about a vertiginous 8% quarterly drop in Wikipedia page views at the end of 2025:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/