The Wikimedia Foundation, whose mission is to 'enable everyone, everywhere to freely and openly access and share trusted information,' and which believes that 'access to knowledge is a human right,' ...

The recent rise of generative AI has led to a surge in demand for content used to train and infer models, with some AI companies using web-scraping bots called 'crawlers' to collect data. The ...

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from ...

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 ...

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.

The election of Bobby Shabangu to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is a historic milestone for the Wikimedia movement, as it marks the first time an African serves in this senior governance ...