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Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers (enterprise.wikimedia.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can download a torrent of the whole thing, they don't need to give it to anyone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This release is powered by our Snapshot API’s Structured Contents beta, which outputs Wikimedia project data in a developer-friendly, machine-readable format. Instead of scraping or parsing raw article text, Kaggle users can work directly with well-structured JSON representations of Wikipedia content—making this ideal for training models, building features, and testing NLP pipelines.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 4 days ago

The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there's a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they'd then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia's site. I doubt they would bother.