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Web crawlers are draining Wikipedia’s resources and infrastructure capacity

Article by Grace Harmon  |  Apr 2, 2025
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The news: Wikimedia, the host of Wikipedia, is experiencing unheard-of surges in traffic due to web crawlers that are scraping data for AI training.

  • Bandwidth for downloading multimedia files has grown 50% since January 2024, threatening infrastructure sustainability and stretching data center resources thin.
  • Bots account for 65% of its most expensive traffic. The company said in a blog post that this is disproportionate, since bots account for only 35% of overall page views.

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