If you're a startup running your own crawlers to gather data for whatever purpose, you should try really hard not to make the world a worse place by driving up costs for the sites you are scraping.
There's really no excuse for crawling Wikipedia ("65% of our most expensive traffic comes from bots") when they offer a comprehensive collection of bulk download options.
Do better!
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