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

As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up ...

Automated requests of this kind are repeatedly blocked so that people can use Wikipedia and other content undisturbed. The traffic caused by the AI scrapers is “unprecedented” and means ...

For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise of AI web-scraping ... to these scraper bots, and ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an ...

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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or ... data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. “Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic ...

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

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 ...