AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

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By Paul SawersApr 2, 2025, 9:26 am83 pts
The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday,…

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