Wikimedia Faces Mounting Strain from AI Crawlers as Bandwidth Usage Soars 50%

Indian court orders Wikipedia to axe defamatory content

An Indian court has again ordered a tech platform to remove information, this time statements on Wikipedia that a domestic news agency considers defamatory.

Wikimedia must remove India content deemed defamatory, court rules

NEW DELHI - The operator of Wikipedia has been ordered to remove statements deemed defamatory by an Indian court from the page of a domestic news agency it hosts, the latest such directive to the popular online encyclopedia. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots

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 bandwidth. Demand for content hosted on Wikimedia servers has grown significantly since the beginning of 2024, with AI companies actively consuming an overwhelming...Read Entire Article

The Hidden Face of Wikipedia is an investigation written by Victor Lefebvre and Michel Sandrin, whose objective is to explain to the general public the undersides of Wikipedia's operation, what they call "the back-shopping of the site". The objective: to understand how the writing of the pages organizes, the ideological biases that have impregnated the site, and the conflicts of interest that exist. Outside the Atlantic, Elon Musk criticized Wik…

Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden

: Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.