The Evolution of Coordination in a Collective Intelligence System: 25 Years of English Wikipedia and the Emergence of Generative AI

arXiv:2609.16856 · cs.HC, cs.AI, cs.SI · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI, cs.SI

Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 10 figures, 16 pages

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Generative AI — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spectral Gap — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Wikipedia in the Era of LLMs: Evolution and Risks
• Invisible Labor in Open Source Software Ecosystems
• Communication networks and group effectiveness: the case of English Wikipedia
• LLMs in Wikipedia: Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in Knowledge Communities

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