Wikipedia is hemorrhaging traffic as the artificial intelligence revolution increasingly makes the left-wing online encyclopedia redundant.Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan told Axios this week that Wikipedia page views fell eight percent in 2025 as users increasingly turn to AI tools rather than visiting the website directly.While Meehan said the decline was anticipated, she acknowledged that Wikimedia remains concerned.The problem is particularly severe because AI companies have relied heavily on Wikipedia’s enormous database to train and power their models.“We’re not asking for charity”: Wikimedia CEO calls out AI for unpaid data use https://t.co/RG0hwixIiZ— Axios (@axios) October 2, 2026This allows users to obtain information derived from the encyclopedia without ever visiting it, threatening its entire financial model.Around 80 percent of Wikimedia’s operating budget comes from small donations, many generated through fundraising banners shown directly to readers.“If less readers are coming, that’s less conversion to editors,” Meehan also warned.While the website once had a reputation as a useful for resource for people around the world, it has become notorious for its aggressive left-wing bias on a wide variety of issues.A 2024 Manhattan Institute study examining thousands of political articles found Wikipedia was more likely to associate right-leaning public figures with negative sentiment than their left-leaning counterparts.The treatment of conservative media outlets is similarly revealing.Wikipedia currently describes The Gateway Pundit in the opening sentence of its article as an “American far-right fake news website.”How Wikipedia’s Far Left Operatives Use Fraud and “Citogenesis” to Smear Trusted Conservative Websites like The Gateway Pundit/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i