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

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

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

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

For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in ...

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

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

Wikipedia's operator, Wikimedia, is appealing a New Delhi court's order to remove certain content from its page about an ...

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites, and it is actually prepared for peaks in traffic. However, AI scrapers make ...

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.

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 ...