The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

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 ...

The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from ...

The Wikimedia Foundation is suing the U.K. government over the Online Safety Act, claiming it threatens the privacy and safety of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors. Its complaint is centered around the ...

A data scientist, Albon has worked for technology companies and nonprofits for over 10 years. He has served as Head of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation since January 2020 and as Head of ...