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They've been requesting for donations on their website, the main source of their income.
by piyush_soni 8y ago
They've been requesting for donations on their website, the main source of their income.
- zorked 8y agoThat doesn't mean you can't use Wikipedia's content in other ways, nor does it make it immoral to do so. I found this page which gives an overview of what's ok to do with their content. Mirroring is literally the first example they give. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
- piva00 8y agoIt doesn't mean that everyone that visits Wikipedia is going to donate. It means that they save a TON of bandwidth from people that would access Wikipedia for a specific information and bounce, it doesn't alienate the important part of Wikipedia's maintenance: editors and collaborators. So all-in-all the lost revenue from donations is more than covered by the savings in bandwidth.
- piyush_soni 8y agoIf we extrapolate what you're saying, no one visiting their website would mean all the bandwidth saving, but no income at all. So it doesn't hold good.