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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.

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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

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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 grow…

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So? Break context scrapers till they give up, on your site or completely.
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