Chris Petrillo, Principal Product Manager at Wikimedia Enterprise, talked about AI bots, human editors and the convergence of the two entities on Wikipedia.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the ...

Selena Deckelmann argues that in this era of machine-generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable. Selena Deckelmann has never been afraid of people on the internet. With a TV repairman and ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI, - The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India's Supreme Court to quash its order directing the online encyclopedia operator to take down a page describing its legal ...

“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 ...