How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Eventualism has become an accepted norm in the community, because by default since the beginning of the project, starting from nothing, articles have overwhelmingly benefited from multiple eyeballs (and edits).

It was better described as a channel for the transmission of culture in the form of memes.

Data, or data usage rights, might indeed become scarcer (or at least costlier) in the future as more and more platforms are closing up their free API access. Examples of that we have seen earlier this year include Reddit and Twitter/X. The latter has also just updated its usage terms to prevent crawling and scraping last month.

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A lot of the most important work that public institutions do is the most laborious, it's the most time consuming. It's the first thing that you would optimize away if you were trying to increase the profitability of your VC library, right?

Information bankruptcy can’t be fully solved, but it can be managed.