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I sympathize with Wikipedia here because I really like the platform. That being said, modernize and get yourself a new front end. People don't like AI because of it's intrusiveness. They want convenience. Create "Knowledge-bot" or something similar that is focused on answering questions in a more meaningful way.
The last thing Wikipedia should do is change the look. Modernizing is a waste of resources when it works just fine all to just to give idiots a new dopamine hit.
Capitalism is the problem not wikipedia. Plus the reference desk exists, its just not instant.
FWIW:
Wikipedia:Reference desk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
Interesting. I had never heard about this. Could still use a lot of sprucing up.
IIRC, they expect people to first try to find the answers themselves—perhaps they could check out a few WP articles—no "Who's the Secretary of the Department of Interior" or similar questions;
though my big (perhaps only) problem is that a question only stands for a while—maybe a few days or week or so—before it's archived. In some of the forums (non-WP) of about 20 years ago, one could answer questions asked months, maybe years, earlier that are still relevant.
Still, I've gotten a few good answers to the few questions I posted on it.