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Re:Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API by vosper on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:31PM (#26485081)
> Why would Google pay for this when they already crawled and are crawling whole Wikipedia and have complete index of it?

Google's not the only enterprise out there :) I believe Wikipedia's taxonomy is used by lots of people for ML purposes, for example.

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Re:Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API by easton on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:59PM (#26485288)
But for ML you’d probably want to download the whole thing anyway, considering it’s only like 47GB. I doubt many people want to make a model on only soccer pages or something.
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