As a general rule, make your scraper non-paralell, and put a user-agent that has contact details in the event of an issue, and you're probably all good.
After all wikipedia is meant to be used. Don't be unduly disruptive, don't scrape 20 million pages, but scraping a couple thousand is totally acceptable.
Source: used to work for wikimedia, albeit not in the sre dept. My opinions are of course totally my own.