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> This will not impact smaller content reusers who can continue to leverage Wikimedia’s data dumps and APIs freely for their own use.

This is another way to say "if you are a big business, we're going to block you downloading these unless you pay".

Won't be long before those data dumps require a "free account" or captcha to download...



Seems like an odd speculation. Can you provide any evidence for that?




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