Friday, 27 March, 2026
Wikipedia Demands AI Firms Stop Scraping, Use Paid API
By Isha
The Wikimedia Foundation urges AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API, Wikimedia Enterprise. This plea follows an 8% drop in human traffic, largely due to AI search summaries that use Wikipedia’s data. The foundation warns that heavy bot scraping consumes excessive bandwidth, raises costs, and threatens its volunteer and donor-supported sustainability model.
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