{"687574":{"#nid":"687574","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"At 25, Wikipedia Now Faces Its Most Existential Threat\u2014Generative A.I.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, was recently quoted in an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScientific American\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ethat discusses the evolution of Wikipedia:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs Wikipedia\u2019s use grew, some educators softened their stance, encouraging its use to find leads to sources that students could dig into directly. Others took a different approach, assigning students to edit Wikipedia entries\u2014many through Wiki Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass, a biogeochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of those professors; she has incorporated Wikipedia editing into her teaching since 2018. She wanted a student project that emphasized the concise and technical but understandable writing style that the site uses. And although she hadn\u2019t done much editing for Wikipedia herself, she was impressed by the website\u2019s breadth of content.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEach semester, her students write one article from scratch about a topic they research, from dolomitization to the tropopause. Glass says the project teaches them the value of institutional access to published literature and the skill of fact-checking their writing line by line.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, was recently quoted in an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScientific American\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ethat discusses the evolution of Wikipedia:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs Wikipedia\u2019s use grew, some educators softened their stance, encouraging its use to find leads to sources that students could dig into directly. Others took a different approach, assigning students to edit Wikipedia entries\u2014many through Wiki Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass, a biogeochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of those professors; she has incorporated Wikipedia editing into her teaching since 2018. She wanted a student project that emphasized the concise and technical but understandable writing style that the site uses. And although she hadn\u2019t done much editing for Wikipedia herself, she was impressed by the website\u2019s breadth of content.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEach semester, her students write one article from scratch about a topic they research, from dolomitization to the tropopause. Glass says the project teaches them the value of institutional access to published literature and the skill of fact-checking their writing line by line.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-01-21 20:23:55","changed_gmt":"2026-01-22 16:20:48","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Scientific American","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/at-25-wikipedia-now-faces-its-most-existential-threat-generative-a-i\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}