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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 19:01, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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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