Comment by ApeWithCompiler
Comment by ApeWithCompiler 9 hours ago
The following is the best I could collect quickly to provide backup to the statement. Unfortunally it's not the high quality first instance of raw statistics I would have liked.
But from what I have read time to time the crawler acted magnitudes outside of what could have been accepted as just badly configured.
https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape/
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...
https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
https://tecnobits.com/en/AI-crawlers-on-Wikipedia-platform-d...