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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has stated that Africa’s contribution to the global knowledge ecosystem is critical, noting the continent’s critical role in growing and shaping its projects for the future.