“AI” bots drive Wikipedia traffic up 50 per cent—as we already witnessed in 2023

02.04.2025/11.21

Another thing I experienced before others: “AI” scraping causing a substantial increase in bandwidth, notably at Autocade in 2023. In Wikipedia’s case, this happened last year, as the “AI” bots sent their bandwidth up 50 per cent. Casey Newton writes: Post by @caseynewton View on Mastodon The bots steal, do not give attribution, and […]

My holiday as a car anorak

06.02.2011/03.56

Since New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are about the only two days I actually take off, I spent some time adding entries on Autocade, a site that doesn’t seem like “work” to me. It’s my hobby. The randomizer, which my friend Peter Jobes installed for me on the site’s home page, came […]