The cost of “free” knowledge The push for paid licensing follows years of rising infrastructure costs as AI companies scraped […]
Category: Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Wikipedia’s parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government […]
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play by established rules. Some ignore […]