I hope #Wikimedia got something good out of this, otherwise it feels a lot like extortion. "Give us direct access to your data or we're going to scrape the shit outta your site over and over and over until you go broke paying for data transfers." I mean, logically this kind of deal makes sense to avoid the constant data scraping, but wow it feels like they're getting screwed in the deal unless there's some part of the arrangement that isn't public yet.
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@mike I haven't read the article yet, but AFAIK Wikipedia has had ways to download the full archive for a long time already, and yet AI companies kept DoS'ing them instead. So a direct deal seems like a good thing, especially if that also includes funding Wikipedia. The content was always licensed and intended to spread far and wide.
@VincentTunru Yea, that's what I'm hoping is that there's some funding for Wikimedia in the deal.