The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers (Wikimedia)

by #AI [2.0] April 2, 2025 · Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]

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The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers — Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images …