India, Nov. 11 -- Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer companies: stop scraping its pages and start using its paid API service. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the free online encyclopedia, has urged AI developers to access its content responsibly through its paid Wikimedia Enterprise platform to ensure continued support for the website in the evolving digital age.

In a blog post released on Monday, the foundation said AI developers should properly credit Wikipedia's contributors and obtain data through official channels rather than automated scraping. The Wikimedia Enterprise product allows large-scale use of Wikipedia's content without overloading its servers. The foundation added that the revenue from the paid p...