“We then used the new logic to reclassify our traffic data for March-August 2025, and found that much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May and June was coming from bots that were built to evade detection.”
What I do not understand is what the point is with bots scraping Wikipedia content? You can just download it?
Anyway, the Dead Internet is upon us.
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#deadinternet
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/