The idea is that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to tap into Wikipedia's data firehose without clogging its ...

The Internet has been used as a tool for sharing information since its inception. Over the past few years, “wiki” technology has been introduced as a way to allow individuals to modify and contribute ...

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

When asked whether Wikipedia might consider blocking AI crawlers entirely, Wales acknowledged that it is a “possible but ...

Many in the academic world cast suspicious glares on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that users edit at will. But some Ohio State professors have embraced the technology and philosophy of the wiki.

Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The technology ...

First appearing in 1995, the “wiki” approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the ...

Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman (DoubleClick's former CEO and former CTO, respectively) and Eliot Horowitz founded ShopWiki in New York City last year with the goal of “indexing everything that can be ...

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and support for contributors.

Pedro Hernández-Ramos, associate director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society. Wikipedia is ubiquitous on the Web. A search for any obscure information is likely to wind up in a link to one ...