The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced ...

Since its founding more than a decade ago, Wikipedia has always prided itself on openness. Anyone who wants to edit the world's largest encyclopedia can do so, despite occasionally embarrassing ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, has reported a dramatic 50% increase in bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads since January 2024.