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 ...

Specifically, Wikimedia Commons, the primary go-to repository for images, videos and audio files, saw a drastic increase in bandwidth use. Since the beginning of 2024, our platform has seen a 50% ...

The company wants developers to stop straining its website, so it created a cache of Wikipedia pages formatted specifically for developers.

As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up costs for the non-profit that runs the popular crowdsourced encyclopaedia ...

To combat server strain from AI bots, Wikimedia Enterprise has made a structured Wikipedia dataset available via Google's ...

Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.

Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth. O ...

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says. AI is proving extremely lucrative for the tech world. So it's bizarre to me that there's no an ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from ...