Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online ...

The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.

AI bots scraping content from Wikimedia Commons have caused a 50% surge in bandwidth usage since January 2024, straining resources and raising concerns about internet accessibility.

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid ...

warns of chilling effect on free speech The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India's Supreme Court to quash an order directing the online encyclopedia operator to take down ...

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has called for Congress to investigate Wikipedia following a ...

In October, the Delhi High Court had described Wikipedia’s model as “dangerous”, complaining that “anyone can edit a page”.

The Wikimedia Foundation is now facing a massive problem because of AI bots scraping data from its platforms for training.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India's Supreme Court to quash its order directing the online encyclopedia operator to take down a page describing its ...

As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...

NEW DELHI - The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India's Supreme Court to quash an order directing the online encyclopedia operator to take down a page describing its legal ...