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 ...

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

Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online ...

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

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia's bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users ...

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.