Stefan Bohacek<p>65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.</p><p>"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."</p><p><a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/</span><span class="invisible">how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikimedia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a></p>