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 ...

This is Source Notes, a column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Last month, the Jewish-American news site Forward reported a shocking scoop: The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think ...

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 ...

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 ...