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

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

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

Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge ... As a result of the doubling of normal network traffic, a small number of Wikipedia's connection routes to the internet were congested ...

The foundation plans on gathering feedback from the Wikipedia community on the best ways to identify traffic from AI bots scrapers and filter their access. This includes requiring bot operators to go ...

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a ...

The foundation plans on gathering feedback from the Wikipedia community on the best ways to identify traffic from AI bots scrapers and filter their access. This includes requiring bot operators to ...

"Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of ...