Wikipedia, the renowned online encyclopedia, has issued a stern appeal to AI companies on November 10, 2025. The nonprofit ...

Wikipedia Enterprise is a paid API that allows AI developers to scrape Wikipedia's content at will, without licensing fees or ...

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. AI bots are taking a toll on Wikipedia's bandwidth, ...