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

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://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape/ https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali... https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ https://tecnobits.com/en/AI-crawlers-on-Wikipedia-platform-danger/ https://tecnobits.com/en/AI-crawlers-on-Wikipedia-platform-d... https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1 https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1