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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 days ago

AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.

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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 days ago

cross-posted to:
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

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Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

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Are there alternatives besides Cloudflare’s solution?
- skulblaka
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  Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.
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    There’s also Anubis, but it uses proof of work not a maze.
    
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