On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:49:15AM -0700, Steven Walling wrote:
It's use of Wikipedia like this that makes me think we should charge for API access over a certain limit (obviously this would exclude cases like WP Zero partners).
This would be a dangerous precedent, I think; deciding who gets to reuse mediawiki content based on the decision of a few administrators. Which is always going to be political.
I agree with Daniel, the issue is that they aren't attributing appropriately, as they are required to do by the copyright license.
You're right that technologies which take away the prominence of community editing and treat wikipedia just as a resource to consume are troubling, but I think in this case the proposed cure would be far worse than the disease.
Nick