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

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

The Wikimedia Foundation ... data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. "Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns ...

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.