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Why should we stop the bots? Wikipedia supposedly wants the world to have this free information, a bit is just another way of supporting that goal.
by briandear 2y ago
Why should we stop the bots? Wikipedia supposedly wants the world to have this free information, a bit is just another way of supporting that goal.
- coldpie 2y agoThe answer to your question is in the article.
- richiebful1 2y agoBecause there's a better way for bots to get the data via the wikipedia database dump. Sending some large zip archives is a lot cheaper than individually serving every page on Wikipedia.
- jraph 2y agoNot at all costs though, including disrupting access to said free information. And this free information is not free from rights to respect neither, it's under CC-BY-SA, which requires attribution and sharing under the same conditions, the kind of "subtleties" and "details" with which AI companies have been wiping their big arses.