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by Somatochlora 1290 days ago
In what way is this abuse?
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Depending if this became "popular", could overload them with traffic.

I presume this is a fun test project though, so I doubt it would cause much harm, but it could be there.

It's hitting the Wikipedia API, which I can assure you is used to seeing a lot worse.
Overload wikipedia with traffic? As opposed to manually opening a Wikipedia page and copypasting the URL from it?