“In January 2017, we the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have ...

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 ...

Wikimedia's executive salaries have sparked an online conversation about salaries. Some people are pointing out the contrast between their salaries, and other tech leaders' pay. "A mid career software ...

Selena Deckelmann argues that in this era of machine-generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable. Selena Deckelmann has never been afraid of people on the internet. With a TV repairman and ...

When British wildlife photographer David J. Slater embarked on a mission to save an endangered and uncannily human-like primate species in Indonesia by raising awareness via photography and money ...

On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection ...

Wikipedia’s sister project Wikidata just got a new database that is easier for AI models to ingest. Wikipedia’s sister project Wikidata just got a new database that is easier for AI models to ingest ...

Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the ...

After Wikipedia editors voted to drop cryptocurrency as a donation option last month, the Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that it will no longer accept Bitcoin or other forms of crypto, The Verge ...

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The ACLU is challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ international Internet communications. At issue is the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance, through ...