Preparing a feast only to have it eaten by ghosts who don’t leave a tip: Wikipedia plans to regulate bot access and wants new attribution guidelines for web, apps, voice assistants, and LLMs. (Wikimedia)
Summary
- Wikimedia faces unsustainable traffic growth from AI scrapers, threatening human access to knowledge content.
- New strategy focuses on authenticated developer access, streamlined API infrastructure, and clear attribution guidelines.
- Goal is reducing scraper traffic by 20-30% while creating sustainable pathways for legitimate content reuse.
