The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages ...

Wikimedia Enterprise principal product manager Chris Petrillo advised strategies to combat the rise of bot traffic, emphasizing the importance of human-driven contribution despite AI’s growing role in ...

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 ...

When British wildlife photographer David J. Slater embarked on a mission to save an endangered and uncannily human-like primate species in Indonesia by raising awareness via photography and money ...

As large language models absorb Wikipedia’s content without attribution, the world’s free encyclopedia finds itself at the center of the AI information economy—struggling to keep control over the ...

Back when artificial intelligence was on the rise, AI scraping has been a massive problem as they were unlicensed and did not ask for the right permissions to access data from web sources, and that ...

“In January 2017, we the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have ...

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, parent company Wikimedia announced a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to ...

Can nudging people into making simple edits help grow a new crop of Wikipedians? Can nudging people into making simple edits help grow a new crop of Wikipedians? is a senior tech and policy editor ...

The ACLU is challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ international Internet communications. At issue is the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance, through ...