The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.

Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced ...

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia ...

Bobby Shabangu’s election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board marks a historic first for Africa and a decisive step toward ...

Wikipedia is licensing AI access to Microsoft, Meta and more as AI bots drive up costs and human pageviews decline.

Wikipedia has now become the backbone of knowledge on the internet. For 25 years, Wikipedia and its global volunteer ...

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 ...

This interview is part of a series highlighting the personal journeys of language activists who are also Wikimedians, exploring how they preserve, promote, and revitalize their languages through ...