On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
I don't know how formal or authoritative that is. You might want to ask someone like Brion. I think the answer in practice is that nobody's going to waste time blocking you if you don't cause noticeable load, but I don't know if there's an official statement anywhere. I vaguely recall that some sites might pay Wikimedia a fee to do commercial live mirroring, but I'm not sure on that.
AFAIK one of these is spiegel.de which gets some kind of live feed, they arranged it with WM DE. Marco