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, Wikipedia, Technology, Bandwidth, Wikimedia
5 points by HypnoticOcelot 23 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 23 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 24 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 24 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 24 days ago | 3 comments
Wikimedia community ratifies Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation vetoes it (wikipedia.org)
Wikimedia, Governance, Community, Organizations, Voting
38 points by akolbe 277 days ago | 10 comments
Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status (mediawiki.org)
Wikimedia, Gitlab, Migration
44 points by altilunium 286 days ago | 30 comments
Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More (wikimedia.com)
APIs, AI, Wikimedia, Enterprise
222 points by ks2048 340 days ago | 161 comments