Hello Amirouche, Regarding "most cell phone plans" being unlimited, here in the United States there are many phone plans which are not unlimited. I don't know what the proportion of unlimited to limited users are.
My understanding is that Twitter charges money for the use of their API under some circumstances. See https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/twitter-developer-review/. If Twitter can be successful with this then I would think that WMF can too, although in WMF's case the goals do not include profits for shareholders. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 3:37 PM Amirouche Boubekki <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 19:01, Pine W <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with > > Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed > > in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to > > organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia > > API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to > > consumers that want to use Wikidata services in resource-intensive ways. > > I was told that charging on an API request basis is very difficult to > get correctly in terms of software because measuring things is in > general difficult. Take, for instance, the case of a failed query it > should not be charged, should it? That is the reason why most cell > phone plans are unlimited. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
