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Wikipedia is always bugging me about donations, and yet here it is a feature they could charge for or at least hint to donate. It would be perfectly acceptable
by dudus 6y ago
Wikipedia is always bugging me about donations, and yet here it is a feature they could charge for or at least hint to donate. It would be perfectly acceptable to charge here since abuse of this can rack up quite a bill. Maybe they don't pay as much as I do for outbound traffic on aws, but still
- capableweb 6y ago> would be perfectly acceptable to charge here since abuse of this can rack up quite a bill Not according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia much rather beg people from all corners of the world to donate, than restricting access to their data. That's what a good, honest and well-meaning foundation does. And yes, no sane person shuffling a lot of data around is using AWS because of their awful bandwidth pricing, Wikipedia included.
- morsch 6y agoI guess a hint would be fine, but charging for access, even bulk access, feels quite contrary to the spirit of the project. It excludes huge ranges of people who cannot afford it or don't have access to Internet payment methods. I suspect the traffic caused by this is minuscule compared to the overall traffic, anyway. But that's just a guess.
- bawolff 6y ago> Maybe they don't pay as much as I do for outbound traffic on aws, but still Almost certainly not. I doubt this is even a rounding error on their budget. I'm not sure how this stuff works at a high level (IANA network engineer), but i think they have peering presence at internet exchange points - https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/14907 https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/14907 so im not sure they actually pay for bandwidth at all, at least on some routes