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Small personal sites, Codeberg, Gnome,... and now Wikipedia: "How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects"

All this LLMs aka AI crap is killing the WWW more effectively than trackers, ads and other spyware (Not to mention the impact on the physical world). Maybe it's time for people to think it twice before praising AI just for the sake of entering into the hype and look cool.

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

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🕸️ We are doing this conference at Media of Cooperation in June ... It is called THE DATAFIED WEB, and it will be a blast! Registration for #RESAW25 is now open. Please spread widely, and do not forget to check out the marvelous programme at datafiedweb.net!

Really looking forward to everything, especially the keynotes by @nthylstrup on "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" and @jwyg on "Public Data Cultures"!