Capital de TokensMillions of requests: the load Wikimedia received
Watch on YouTube According to the foundation, they made millions of automated requests to its public interfaces and crawled millions of pages, mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. They sent hundreds of thousands of requests to the Wikidata Query Service. Wikimedia says that traffic may have contributed to a partial service interrup
According to the foundation, they made millions of automated requests to its public interfaces and crawled millions of pages, mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. They sent hundreds of thousands of requests to the Wikidata Query Service. Wikimedia says that traffic may have contributed to a partial service outage in May 2026. Do we know whether the agents caused the outage? Not with the information available. “May have contributed” does not establish a single cause. What Wikimedia does document is the volume of activity it received and the cost of investigating it. A public service has to serve researchers, readers, and applications; an automated load on that scale consumes resources maintained by the people and organizations behind it.
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