The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.

The recent rise of generative AI has led to a surge in demand for content used to train and infer models, with some AI companies using web-scraping bots called 'crawlers' to collect data. The ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, whose mission is to 'enable everyone, everywhere to freely and openly access and share trusted information,' and which believes that 'access to knowledge is a human right,' ...

Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge ...

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has stated that Africa’s contribution to the global knowledge ecosystem is critical, noting the continent’s critical role in growing and shaping its projects for the future.

Bobby Shabangu’s election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board marks a historic first for Africa and a decisive step toward ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

Wikipedia has quietly underpinned the modern internet for a quarter of a century, yet the free encyclopedia has watched ...