Wikipedia is the crown jewel of the old internet. An encyclopaedia for the digital age, it was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales ...

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

As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up ...

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.

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has called for Congress to investigate Wikipedia following a March 2025 report alleging anti-Israel and antisemitic bias by at least 30 ...

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 ...

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

The operator of online encyclopedia Wikipedia has challenged a New Delhi court's order to remove statements deemed defamatory ...

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

The operator of Wikipedia has been ordered to remove statements deemed defamatory by an Indian court from the page of a ...

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

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