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Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK</ref><ref>https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/</ref><ref>https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/?ref=quillette.com</ref> | Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK</ref><ref>https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/</ref><ref>https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/?ref=quillette.com</ref> | ||
Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4365219</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist digital archival missions such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/spaceil</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref> | Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200</ref><ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4365219</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist digital archival missions such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/spaceil</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref><ref>https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive</ref> | ||
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