Hacker News with Generative AI: Wikimedia

Wikimedia Cloud VPS: IPv6 Support (wikimedia.org)
Wikimedia Cloud VPS is a service offered by the Wikimedia Foundation, built using OpenStack and managed by the Wikimedia Cloud Services team. It provides cloud computing resources for projects related to the Wikimedia movement, including virtual machines, databases, storage, Kubernetes, and DNS.
Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Wikimedia
9 points by todsacerdoti 17 days ago | 0 comments
Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
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.
Wikimedia, Web Crawling, Content Consumption, Open Source
115 points by edward 21 days ago | 66 comments
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% (arstechnica.com)
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, Technology, Bandwidth, Wikimedia
5 points by HypnoticOcelot 50 days ago | 2 comments
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
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.
Wikimedia, Web Crawlers, Data Usage, Open Source
7 points by panic 51 days ago | 1 comments
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% (arstechnica.com)
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
Artificial Intelligence, Wikimedia, Bandwidth, Data, Stability
9 points by cratermoon 51 days ago | 0 comments
Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
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.
Wikimedia, Content Consumption, Community Impact
9 points by ColinWright 51 days ago | 0 comments
Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
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.
Wikimedia, Data, Content, Online Community
13 points by manuelfcreis 52 days ago | 3 comments
Wikimedia community ratifies Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation vetoes it (wikipedia.org)
Wikimedia, Governance, Community, Organizations, Voting
38 points by akolbe 304 days ago | 10 comments
Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status (mediawiki.org)
Wikimedia, Gitlab, Migration
44 points by altilunium 314 days ago | 30 comments
Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More (wikimedia.com)
APIs, AI, Wikimedia, Enterprise
222 points by ks2048 367 days ago | 161 comments