Five years in, Wikimedia Enterprise is one of the ways we get AI and big tech to stop putting strain on the free and open web .

The digital commons are under threat: with the advent of generative AI, bots have officially surpassed human traffic on the internet . Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation shared our concerns around drops in human traffic on Wikipedia. We also reported a significant increase in bot traffic to Wikimedia projects — largely coming from crawlers that extract content to train generative AI systems. Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons have been obvious choices for training: they are among the last bastions of high-quality, human-created and curated content.…