An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases. "There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it," stated an update today on Wikipedia's Archive.today discussion. "There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today's operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable." More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls. "Those in favor of maintaining the status quo rested their arguments primarily on the utility of archive.today for verifiability," said today's Wikipedia update. "However, an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced. Several editors started to work out implementation details during this RfC [request for comment] and the community should figure out how to efficiently remove links to archive.today."

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Grokipedia, encyclopédie générée par IA lancée en octobre par Elon Musk pour concurrencer Wikipédia, apparaît désormais dans les sources citées par ChatGPT. Une évolution qui alimente les critiques sur la qualité des contenus et sur la confiance accordée aux références des modèles.

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L’encyclopédie libre fête son quart de siècle le 15 janvier 2026. Pour marquer le coup, la fondation officialise des contrats majeurs avec les géants de la tech : pour entraîner leurs IA, ils doivent désormais payer l'accès aux serveurs.

L’encyclopédie libre fête son quart de siècle le 15 janvier 2026. Pour marquer le coup, la fondation officialise des contrats majeurs avec les géants de la tech : pour entraîner leurs IA, ils doivent désormais payer l'accès aux serveurs.

Wikipedia turns 25 today, and the online encyclopedia is celebrating that with an announcement that it has signed new licensing deals with a slate of major AI companies -- Amazon, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Perplexity and Mistral AI. The deals allow these companies to access Wikipedia content "at a volume and speed designed specifically for their needs." The Wikimedia Foundation did not disclose financial terms. Google had already signed on as one of the first enterprise customers back in 2022. The agreements follow the Wikimedia Foundation's push last year for AI developers to pay for access through its enterprise platform. The foundation said human traffic had fallen 8% while bot visits -- sometimes disguised to evade detection -- were heavily taxing its servers. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he welcomes AI training on the site's human-curated content but that companies "should probably chip in and pay for your fair share of the cost that you're putting on us." The site remains the ninth most visited on the internet, hosting more than 65 million articles in 300 languages maintained by some 250,000 volunteer editors.

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Vous connaissez Wikipédia, mais certains articles étonnants sont probablement passés sous vos radars. Numerama vous invite à explorer des pans méconnus de l'encyclopédie en ligne.

C'était il y a 25 ans : le 15 janvier 2001, Wikipédia voyait le jour. Pour célébrer cet anniversaire, Numerama vous fait découvrir 25 faits que vous ignorez peut-être sur l'encyclopédie libre et gratuite en ligne.

C'est l'encyclopédie la plus célèbre. Mais savez-vous d'où vient le nom de Wikipédia ?