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While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.
Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.
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Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure
One year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation reported a significant increase in bot traffic to the Wikimedia projects, largely coming from crawlers who extract content to train generative AI systems. We …

is bullshit #nyc https://greenpointers.com/2026/04/27/mta-to-suspend-g-train-service-every-weekend-in-june/

MTA To Suspend G Train Service Every Weekend in June - Greenpointers
The ferry's looking really good right about now!

am 9.5. kommt der #wikipedia-#bus von @wikimediaDE@wikimedia.de nach #münster:

Cowboys Weekend Headlines: Combine winners, losers, Jones apologizes https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/28/cowboys-weekend-headlines-combine-winners-losers-jones-apolo…

The Real Third Rail in American Politics (Weekend Reading)
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-real-third-rail-in-american-politics
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p55#a260428p55

Lionsgate's Michael opens with $97M domestically and $217M globally in its first weekend, the best start ever for a biopic and the second-biggest debut of 2026 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/michael-box-office-opening-w…

'Michael' Box Office: Biopic Opens to Record-Setting $97 Million
"Michael," a biopic about the King of Pop, arrived in theaters as an instant sensation with $97 million domestically and $217 million globally.

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.
Via @cawston.bsky.social's

I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf

Before you leave for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the latest and most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Gottumukkala is out, Andersen is in as acting CISA director,
--Intellexa founder and three others sentenced to prison,
--Anthropic rejects Pentagon's attempts to weaken guardrails,
--Hundreds of Google employees oppose AI use in surveillance and autonomous weapons,
--Project Compass led to the arrest of 30 mostly…

Gottumukkala is out as acting CISA director
Intellexa founder and three others sentenced to prison, Anthropic rejects Pentagon's weakened guardrails, Google employees oppose AI use in surveillance and autonomous weapons, Project Compass led to the arrest of 30 mostly young suspects, Medical device maker UFP hit by cyberattack, much more

I wrote a blogpost about our search for coaches for the dutch-language wikicommunity.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/27/one-year-of-e-coaching-for-the-dutch-community/