https://stormyscorner.com/tags/wikipedia/Recent content in Wikipedia on Stormy PetersHugoen-usThu, 22 May 2025 07:23:04 -0700https://stormyscorner.com/blog/is-ai-killing-online-collaboration-the-decline-of-stack-overflow-wikipedia-and-what-it-means-for-open-source/Thu, 22 May 2025 07:23:04 -0700https://stormyscorner.com/blog/is-ai-killing-online-collaboration-the-decline-of-stack-overflow-wikipedia-and-what-it-means-for-open-source/<p>Participation in online collaborative sites is decreasing, and the numbers are striking. Matt Asay recently wrote <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3988468/what-comes-after-stack-overflow.html" rel="noopener">an article about how there are fewer people asking questions on Stack Overflow</a>. If you look at December 2023 to December 2024, the number of questions that were asked dropped by 40%.</p> <p>You can watch the video version of this article on YouTube.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/WOYFIQxQoUc" rel="noopener">https://youtu.be/WOYFIQxQoUc</a></p> <p>Since ChatGPT has been released, he pointed out in 2023, there&rsquo;s been this dramatic decline in the number of questions asked on Stack Overflow. However, the number of questions asked on Stack Overflow has been dropping since 2018, as shown in the graph. Perhaps there&rsquo;s something else also going on.</p>