Hello Amirouche,
Regarding "most cell phone plans" being unlimited, here in the United States there are many phone plans which are not unlimited. I don't know what the proportion of unlimited to limited users are.
My understanding is that Twitter charges money for the use of their API under some circumstances. See https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/twitter-developer-review/. If Twitter can be successful with this then I would think that WMF can too, although in WMF's case the goals do not include profits for shareholders.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 3:37 PM Amirouche Boubekki amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com wrote:
Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 19:01, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com a écrit :
I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to consumers that want to use Wikidata services in resource-intensive ways.
I was told that charging on an API request basis is very difficult to get correctly in terms of software because measuring things is in general difficult. Take, for instance, the case of a failed query it should not be charged, should it? That is the reason why most cell phone plans are unlimited.
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