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ezrastyesterday at 3:36 PM0 repliesview on HN

Setting aside the notion that a site presenting live-editability as its entire core premise is "pretending to be static", do the actual folks at Wikimedia, who have been running a top 10 website successfully for many years, and who have a caching system that worked well in the environment it was designed for, and who found that that system did not, in fact, trivialize the load of AI scraping, have any standing to complain? Or must they all just be bad at their jobs?

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-th...