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Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by learc83 on Friday August 20, 2021 @08:24PM (#28252895)
Having been on the other side of this, I’d rather we encourage people to make use of formats/interfaces designed for machines and use the right tool for the job instead of scraping everything.

It’s incredibly easy for careless scrapers to disrupt a site and cost real money without having a clue what they’re doing.

I want people to think twice and consider what they are doing before they scrape a site.

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