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

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

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% ...

AI bots scraping content from Wikimedia Commons have caused a 50% surge in bandwidth usage since January 2024, straining resources and raising concerns about internet accessibility.