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

the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has ...

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

Molly Stark Dean, an editor, bemoaned the ire, and expressed concern over implications for the site’s security. “The whole rest of the internet has been through ‘enshittification’—and everything else ...

Specifically, Wikimedia Commons, the primary go-to repository for images, videos and audio files, saw a drastic increase in ...

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.

Eventually, on a page discussing all the candidate photos, one example was agreed to contain no issues. The image, added by ...

NEW DELHI, April 4 (Reuters) - The operator of Wikipedia has been ordered to remove statements deemed defamatory by an Indian court from the page of a domestic news agency it hosts, the latest ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The John F. Wolfe Columbus Commons is gearing up for the warmer weather as officials announced the lineup of events happening this season. Starting April 17, visitors can ...

The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons. Download the app here, or view our website. Initially started by the Wikimedia ...

I research scientometrics, metascience, and social media from a social science perspective. I am currently leading an ESRC-funded international metascience project assessing the value of large ...