Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

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Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Foundation) is mostly driven by donations and volunteers, unlike Reddit…

Also, scraping every page on Wikipedia is incredibly heavy, especially compared to things like downloading a compressed copy of the entire site through torrents.

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