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.

Can you please use the API instead?

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'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 ...

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia ...

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 ...

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 is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and support for contributors.

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 ...