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The point is that's not an option. Everyone should get the public tier. And if you tried to pull a lot of data, you'd get throttled.



Totally, and if a big company like Google does not want to be throttled or they feel a need for a more advanced api, they can donate to Wikimedia for the purpose of creating such an api which will be available to everyone publicly.


Yes exactly. Google should pay whatever would be required such that it would be free to everyone.




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