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

With robots.txt preferences widely ignored, the AI Preferences Working Group is developing a new way for publishers to shield content from AI bot scraping.

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

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

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

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI ...

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come ...

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

Wikidata has built the semantic web backbone supporting knowledge cards in popular engines. Now, it's extending this ...