Hacker News with Generative AI: Wikimedia

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

8 points by cratermoon 11 hours 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 15 hours 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

12 points by manuelfcreis 23 hours ago | 3 comments

Wikimedia community ratifies Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation vetoes it (wikipedia.org)

Wikimedia, Governance, Community, Organizations, Voting

38 points by akolbe 253 days ago | 10 comments

Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status (mediawiki.org)

Wikimedia, Gitlab, Migration

44 points by altilunium 263 days ago | 30 comments

Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More (wikimedia.com)

APIs, AI, Wikimedia, Enterprise

222 points by ks2048 316 days ago | 161 comments