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Google is their first customer, and they're giving IA free access. And what they're buying let's them >detect vandalism or important updates at the article lev
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
Google is their first customer, and they're giving IA free access. And what they're buying let's them
>detect vandalism or important updates at the article level.
So it gives them a better ability to control a Wikipedia page's content?
Ostensibly both want the unlimited retreivals, but this entire program seems suspicious.
- LordDragonfang 4y agoRead it again, it gives them quicker notification that an article has been vandalized/changed in an important way by normal editors, it doesn't give them any special control over any page's content.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoQuicker notification is somewhat special control, though I prefer my term of "better ability." There's a meaningful difference between detecting vandalism in a minute vs an hour.
- robonerd 4y agoQuicker notifications means a tighter OODA loop, e.g. more control.
- danuker 4y agoTime for me to look into downloading Wikipedia and using it offline.
- cbm-vic-20 4y agoHere you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download