Published on: 2025-07-18 23:51:28
Wikimedia says it shouldn't be held to the same standard as Facebook or X. The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia , is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online content by imposing restrictions and fines on large internet platforms such as social media companies. While the law was originally passed in 2023, enforcement and categorization of companies subject to the law are only taki
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 12:32:16
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation is challenging the United Kingdom’s online safety rules in court over concerns they may enable “vandalism, disinformation, or abuse” to go unchecked on its Wikipedia platform. Wikimedia announced on Thursday that its legal challenge specifically targets the Online Safety Act’s (OSA) categorization regulations, which the foundation says are written broadly enough to hold Wikipedia to the strictest duties that websites can be subject to. OSA is a set of safety
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 03:27:00
What just happened? Companies building AI-focused ventures have heavily mined Wikipedia's content, placing significant strain on its servers in the process. Now, the Wikimedia Foundation is looking to reclaim some of that value by introducing a new set of assistive AI services. Despite these changes, the organization insists that the encyclopedia's core mission will remain unchanged. Wikipedia says it has found a way to embrace generative AI without compromising its core mission. The Wikimedia
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 00:29:30
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grown significantly. In this post, we’ll discuss the reasons for this trend and its impact. The Wikimedia projects are the largest collection of open knowledge in the world. Our sites are an invaluable destination for humans searching for information, and for all kinds of businesses that access our conten
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 08:07:03
Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Kaggle — a Google-owned data science community platform that hosts machine learning data — to publish a beta dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French.” Wikimedia says the dataset hosted by Kaggle has been “designed with machine
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-13 08:18:00
Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network sledgehammer wielded by OpenAI and other tech giants in search of fresh content to feed their AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet bandw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 04:06:06
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms lik
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 20:26:50
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 Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but from automated, data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. “Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 00:15:46
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative arti
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