In addition to the previously announced partnership with Google in 2022, the organization shared publicly for the first time ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As noted by The Verge, the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely. The Wikipedia foundation says that several ...

Wikipedia celebrates 25 years! Explore its history, impact, volunteer editors, and future as a free knowledge resource.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...