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It’s a notion so engrained in our consciousness that it’s even got its own Wikipedia page. Not surprisingly, the so-called ...
The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers.
The company wants developers to stop straining its website, so it created a cache of Wikipedia pages formatted specifically for developers.
Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
YouTube reigns as the most popular social media platform globally, boasting over 4 billion users. Owned by Google, YouTube has evolved into the go-to destination for a vast array of media content, ...
As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up costs for the non-profit that runs the popular crowdsourced encyclopaedia ...
Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and similar community-based projects, say that since January 2024, the bandwidth spent serving requests for multimedia files has ...
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 ...