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Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune
AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 26
Wikipedia
Community-edited online encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia
World's encyclopedia warns draft law could boot it offline in UK
Security28 Apr 2023 | 89
Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes
Warrantless data harvesting, you say? Feds have their secret reasons and we're OK with that
Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 24
Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks
Cabinet committee gets to find a solution after years of bans didn’t achieve a lot
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 21
Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban
Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ?
Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 33
Hi, Pakistan? You do know anyone can edit Wikipedia, right? You don't have to ask
Telecoms authority has 'degraded' access and threatened total ban while it waits for 'blasphemous' content to be removed
Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 40
BROADER TOPICS
Indian tech minister picks a fight with Wikipedia over cricketer's dropped catch
Also separatism, nationalism, and whether Big Tech does enough to police user-generated content
Bootnotes06 Sep 2022 | 17
Meta's AI-based Wikipedia successor 'may be the next big break in NLP'
Don't believe everything you read on the internet
AI + ML11 Jul 2022 | 21
Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary
Networks13 Apr 2022 | 19
Biting the hand that feeds IT
