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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by mtmail on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @06:48PM (#40434997)
I'm using those dumps for a monthly data process. It breaks regularly, mirrors disappear, there's only very few mirrors with the full data and little history. (I'm running a mirror for OpenStreetMap but don't have the disk capacity or bandwith for wikipedia's mirror requirements).
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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by w10-1 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:24PM (#40435457)
Right, the incentives are adverse: if they lower quality of service for free offerings, they'll be rewarded with more paying customers for reliable service.

But quality does take money.

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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by madeofpalk on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:37AM (#40439741)
What are the incentives for more paying customers? Wikimedia Foundation, being a non-profit, has a lot less incentives to chase money at the expense of product quality.
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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by graemep on Thursday May 23, 2024 @05:12AM (#40452368)
The for profit parts are meant to chase money, and higher revenues justify higher management salaries ("I am running a bigger organisation so I deserve to be paid more"). This is widely accepted as being a motive for misaligned incentives in for profit businesses (with regard to takeovers) too.
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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by boramalper on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:07AM (#40437522)
> I'm running a mirror for OpenStreetMap

Curious why you're running a mirror for OSM, is it public or for your private use? If you don't mind, I'd love to learn more about it; sounds super interesting to me.

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Re:Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More by chuckreynolds on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:29PM (#40467758)
Wondering then if you've tried the Snapshot API in wikimedia enterprise?
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