Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI ...

Wikipedia is one of the premier internet institutions, relied on by millions of people worldwide for accurate, up-to-date information. The latest generative AI models also rely on this resource, but ...

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and support for contributors. Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer companies: stop scraping its pages and start using its paid API service. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the free online encyclopedia, has ...