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Reuters , Jimbo suggested that Wikipedia is seeking to make deals similar to its arrangement with Google in order to monetize AI scraping , while planning on using technical tools to limit AI crawling. Seems like we're ending the year with a bang, isn't it? Oltrepier (talk ) 20:37, 5 December 2025 (UTC) [ reply ]
Bri @Smallbones @Jayen466 Is this notable enough to feature in the next issue's ITM?I didn't have any update, so I just wanted to check in... Oltrepier (talk ) 11:39, 12 December 2025 (UTC) [ reply ] Andreas JN 466 12:03, 12 December 2025 (UTC) [ reply ] Andreas JN 466 12:10, 12 December 2025 (UTC) [ reply ] Jayen466 Thank you, I appreciate it! Oltrepier (talk ) 16:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC) [ reply ]
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