The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.

As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...

Specifically, Wikimedia Commons, the primary go-to repository for images, videos and audio files, saw a drastic increase in bandwidth use. Since the beginning of 2024, our platform has seen a 50% ...