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Wikimedia Enterprise
Building new opportunities for both revenue generation and free knowledge dissemination through partnerships and earned income.
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Wikimedia Enterprise
is a service of the Wikimedia Foundation available via
enterprise.wikimedia.com
. The goal of the service is to build services for high-volume commercial reusers of Wikimedia content. The service was announced in March 2021 (
blogpost
WIRED article
) and launched in October 2021 (
Press release
OpenFutures article
).
The focus is on organizations that want to repurpose Wikimedia content in other contexts, providing data services at a large scale, so that they are faster and more comprehensive, reliable, and secure. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to improve the user experience of Wikimedia's readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of the content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability by the organizations that reuse
Wikimedia project data
the most—through self-funding services.
There is a very high barrier to entry for using Wikimedia data, outside of the common use cases of reading or editing. This is because the content is hard for machines to segment and understand, which in turn affects how far Wikimedia project data reaches beyond our own ecosystem, and the scale of impact it can have.
In the Movement Strategy recommendations to
increase the sustainability of our movement
and
improve user experience
there are the recommendations to, respectively: "Explore new opportunities for both revenue generation and free knowledge dissemination through partnerships and earned income—for example...Building enterprise-level APIs," and "Make the Wikimedia API suite more comprehensive, reliable, secure and fast, in partnership with large scale users.... and improve awareness of and ease of attribution and verifiability for content reusers."
It is well known that a few massive companies use our projects' data. Those companies recognize that without the Wikimedia projects, they would not be able to provide as rich or reliable an experience to their own users. There has long been a feeling among community members that these companies should do more to reinvest in the Wikimedia communities for the benefits they gain from the content and resources they use.
This led to the idea of developing a new approach that is more sustainable in the long term and provides a much clearer relationship between Wikimedia and enterprise users. Most financial benefit for Wikimedia would likely only come from a very small handful of heavy for-profit users, and would feed back into the Wikimedia movement.
As this idea developed, it became clear there is a responsibility to democratize our data for organizations that do not possess the resources of these largest users, to ensure we are leveling the playing field and helping to foster a healthy internet without reinforcing monopolies. The benefits of such a service shouldn't just be for startups or alternatives to the internet giants, but also for universities and university researchers; archives and archivists; along with the wider Wikimedia movement.
Overview
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Wikimedia Enterprise's focus is on businesses that reuse our content, typically at a large scale—e.g., integrated into knowledge graphs, search, voice assistants, maps, news reporting, community tools, third party applications, and full-corpus research studies. Augmenting Wikimedia's many datasets to put structure behind our unstructured content will allow all our content reusers to meet their individual requirements while also setting us up to build new tools and services in the future, available to everyone. Reusers of our content are looking for three critical components:
Frequency
: Regular current snapshots of Wikimedia projects
Reliability
: Dependable, accessible infrastructure
Quality
: a “best last revision”
Emphasizing a self-funding set of specific use cases allows the Wikimedia API team to focus on volunteers, teams, and organizations looking to access (and, most importantly, interact with) our data sets. This includes the majority of community editing tools, which will be out of scope for this service. For more information on improvements to the existing Wikimedia APIs see the service page on the "
API Gateway
" initiative.
Program Goals:
Content
: Make more of our movement's content available in consistent machine-readable formats, freely available for all researchers and re-users.
Resource-load
: Reduce the need for high-intensity site-scraping by the highest-frequency and highest-volume reusers, which currently target our production servers.
Fundraising
: Provide a clearer and more consistent way for the largest re-users to reinvest derived benefits back to the movement, instead of making occasional altruistic donations that vary in size.
Community
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Wikimania 2023 presentation slides
Contact
the team
if you would like to arrange a conversation about this service with your community, at a time and meeting software platform of your choice.
Past public meetings:
March 2021 #1
March 2021 #2
April 2021
June 2022
February 2023
...and also at the
EMWCon Spring 2021
conference (
video
); March and July 2022
Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network
(SWAN) meetings
; the May 2021
Wikimedia Clinic
; at
Wikimania
in
2021
and
2023
Following are the introduction paragraphs for a much more detailed
Community essay
The full essay covers the following topics
Commercial reusers of Wikimedia
Why charge?
Sustainability
Self-funding
Diversification
Ensuring commercial investment in free knowledge
What services do commercial reusers need?
System reliability
High frequency or real-time access
Content integrity
Structure
What about free access for some users?
How will this be structured legally?
Libre and Gratis are the two meanings of “free,” commonly phrased as
free as in speech, or free as in beer
Wikimedia projects are, have always been, and will always remain
libre
. The principles of
free cultural works
mean that anyone can use Wikimedia without restriction, including commercially. As a movement, we embrace this. It is why we reject ‘non-commercial’ licenses, as they would limit the kinds of reuse possible. And it is why we consider commercial reuse an important means of distributing knowledge to audiences.
Equally, Wikimedia projects are, have always been, and will always remain
gratis
. The ability to freely access the knowledge available across all Wikimedia projects has always been core to the mission of the Foundation and the movement. We provide this access not only to individuals visiting our websites but also programmatically to machines so that our content can be repurposed in other environments. The full corpus of Wikimedia content always has been, and will continue to be, made available for reuse in various forms (including but not limited to database dumps, APIs, and scraping) at no cost.
As a result, our content is often repurposed by for-profit organizations that rely on it to support their business models, and which consequently earn revenue from it. Outside of voluntary corporate donations to the Wikimedia Foundation, the movement has never received benefits from any of this revenue through return investment. In acknowledgement of this, under the heading of
Increase the sustainability of our movement
the Movement Strategy process asked the Wikimedia Foundation to explore, among other things, “enterprise-level APIs...models for enterprise-scale for-profit reusers, taking care to avoid revenue dependencies or other undue external influence in product design and development.” Furthermore, under the heading
Improve User Experience
, a further recommendation stated, "Make the Wikimedia API suite more comprehensive, reliable, secure, and fast, in partnership with large scale users where that aligns with our mission and principles, to improve the user experience of both our direct and indirect users, increase the reach and discoverability of our content and the potential for data returns, and improve awareness of and ease of attribution and verifiability for content reusers."
The Enterprise project team is developing a new resource aimed at for-profit content reusers, who have product, service, and system requirements that go beyond what we freely provide. Use of this offering will not be required for for-profit content reuse; companies can continue to use the current tools available at no cost. All Enterprise API revenue will unequivocally be used to support the Wikimedia mission—for example, to fund Wikimedia programs or help grow the Wikimedia Endowment.
This project represents a new kind of activity at the Foundation. The project is at a very early stage that should be considered a learning period. We will have successes, we will make mistakes, and we will need to adapt our strategies.
The team
is committed to listening, engaging, and where possible, integrating the feedback we get on our work. This document is organic and is reflective of the team's current thinking; we are attempting to document as much work as possible in the open. Up until now, our work has been shaped by a series of initial interviews with community members, Wikimedia Foundation Board and staff, researchers, and reusers.
...continue to read
the rest of the Community essay
See also the
FAQ
and
Principles
Given the nature of the service, primary decision making for it will rest with the Wikimedia Foundation. We are seeking community input, in particular from the technical community and those who have been involved in the strategy process, throughout the lifetime of the service. Technical feedback has been gathered from colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, industry and research partners, technical partners across the movement, and with the broader technical communities via Phabricator. Input into the funding development side of the service will follow a similar pattern. We will continue gathering input via research interviews and focus groups, as well feedback here on Meta as per
our principles
Access
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The
primary
use case of the suite of Enterprise APIs is paid access for large commercial organisations, with associated Service Level Agreements and dedicated customer support. Nevertheless, and in accordance with the project's
project's principle of
access for all
, there are also various ways to access the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs for free.
Freely access Wikimedia Enterprise APIs by:
Creating a free account
on the official website and using the Enterprise API access for free accounts. Discover what free accounts have access to on the
Enterprise Pricing page
Using
Wikimedia Cloud Services
. You get the same access as a paid account when making a call to any Enterprise API endpoint from within
PAWS
Wikimedia Cloud VPS
, or
Toolforge
. From within those services, make your calls to any endpoint described in the
Enterprise API documentation
without passing an authorization header
Downloading Structured Contents (beta) datasets
hosted on third-party platforms
For the vast majority of use cases, these three options are more than sufficient.
Exceptional access
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If you have a Wikimedia mission-aligned use case and your requirements exceed what is offered at no cost, you may request free
exceptional access
to the higher rate of the Enterprise APIs.
If you would like to request this, please contact wikimedia.org> with a response to the six criteria described below.
Requests will be reviewed by
Wikimedia Foundation
staff in accordance with the following criteria, and granted at the Wikimedia Foundation's discretion. If the request includes substantive access to
Wikidata
content, the request will be reviewed in coordination with staff from
Wikimedia Deutschland
Exceptional access criteria
1. Who
(individual or organisation) is requesting exceptional access?
Please list the contact person’s name, organisation (if applicable), email address, and
Enterprise
API account username.
2. What
is the request for?
Please specify what specific exception is being requested, and for what purpose. Please link to any documentation, existing service or project, research proposal, etc. that shows the use-case.
Notes
All users of Wikimedia Enterprise services must abide by the copyright licenses on Wikimedia content. They are inherent and cannot be waived.
Please also note the
API Usage guidelines
(in particular regarding
sub-licensing
) and any
Wikimedia Foundation policies
which may apply to the proposed use-case – including the
, the
User-Agent Policy
3. Need
. Can the intended use-case be fulfilled via any of the
existing free access methods
Please specify how the existing public services (e.g. public database dumps, APIs, or bots, etc.) are insufficient for your needs.
Notes
Exceptional free access to a paid account can only be granted when all standard options are exhausted – including the free account of the Enterprise services. Possible examples include:
Persistent need for access above the Enterprise API requests/second, or datasets/month,
free thresholds
Creation of a new feature/dataset
Formal customer-service or Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements
4. Obligation.
Would the intended use case require custom development to support or maintain? What is the duration of the requested exception?
Please specify if the proposal can be fulfilled using the features of the existing APIs and datasets. If necessary features or datasets are not already available, please clarify with reference to the
published documentation
Notes
Providing exceptional access is effectively a form of in-kind support. The value includes any initial and ongoing development support, and infrastructure expense (in particular, data transfer costs). Contributions back to the Wikimedia movement (e.g., through content donations and data reports, tools, infrastructure, volunteer support and activities, and technical collaborations) could be understood as reciprocal in-kind contributions.
In accordance with the
Wikimedia Enterprise operating principles
regarding non-exclusivity, any newly developed software feature or dataset must be made available to all. This might raise the financial cost of operating the service considerably, or decrease the strategic value of the proposed use case.
5. Mission alignment
. Is the intended use case aligned with any of the needs identified in the
Movement Strategy Recommendations
Please explain how the intended use will help the Wikimedia movement reach at least one of these goals.
Notes
There is no perfect definition of “mission alignment”. Nevertheless, the Movement Strategy recommendations (2020) represent the culmination of wide-ranging consultation across the Wikimedia community and stakeholders about our future. Its recommendations are broad in scope, stable, and independent of any one stakeholder’s needs.
Special consideration would be given to organizations serving marginalized communities, underrepresented languages, or Wikimedia sister projects. The proposed use-case should not deliberately create or reinforce closed knowledge silos, proprietary forks of the content, or circumvent community norms or policies.
6. Values alignment
. Do the requester’s professional practices or business model align with
Wikimedia’s values
? Please explain how the request (individual or organization) is in support of these values.
Notes
A human rights assessment is undertaken by the WMF for certain users of paid accounts for the Enterprise APIs (regardless of payment or exceptional access), in accordance with the
Human Rights Policy
and
Commercial Sales and Contracts Policy
However, in order to receive free access to a paid account, the user should also be able to demonstrate a commitment to open knowledge, transparency, and/or public-benefit mission (such as education, cultural heritage, intergovernmental agency).
If requesting from a commercial organisation, specify if the lack of exceptional access would significantly jeopardize a public-benefit mission – essential for research, accessibility, public information or safety, for example.
The business-model should at the very least not be in conflict with Wikimedia’s values – for example by being built upon harmful misinformation, disinformation, human rights violations, extractive data use, unethical generative AI, or undisclosed paid-editing practices on Wikimedia sites.
If you have any questions, please leave a message
on the Talkpage
or email wikimedia.org>
Technical
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For full information about the product, see the
regular technical updates on MediaWiki.org
and the
documentation
page.
Over time, the "
API products
" offered will grow and improve. This information is accurate as of September 2024.
Overview
All of our APIs return the same structured JSON (or ND-JSON) response format making it easy to augment one API with another. Three APIs; same data with different retrieval methods:
Retrieve bulk data with the Snapshot API
Retrieve single articles with the On-demand API
Receive changes instantly with Realtime API streaming
API responses payloads include article data such as summary, image, Wikidata QID, license, and metadata specific to the last revision such as editor, size of change, and credibility score with revert probability. All data fields and schema are explained in detail on the project's
Data Dictionary
website page.
Snapshot API
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For high-volume reusers that currently rely on the Wikimedia Dumps to access our information, we have created a solution to ingest Wikimedia content in near real-time without excessive API calls (On-demand API) or maintaining hooks into our infrastructure (Realtime).
The Enterprise Snapshot API allows users to retrieve entire Wikimedia projects as a database dump file.
Download a compressed file containing everything in any supported project, in any language
Article body in HTML as well as Wikitext
Up to a daily snapshots cadence
24-hour compressed dumps (with both wikitext and html) of supported "text-based" Wikimedia projects
A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs
SLA and Support
On-demand API
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Reusers that use an infrastructure reliant on the EventStream platform depend on services like RESTBase to pull HTML from page titles and current revisions to update their products. High-volume reusers have requested a reliable means to gather this data, as well as structures other than HTML when incorporating our content into their KGs and products.
The Wikimedia Enterprise On-demand API allows users to retrieve single articles from any supported Wikimedia project at anytime.
Make standard HTTP requests to retrieve documents by name from all supported projects and languages with filters available to limit response
Request the latest page data anytime to augment your Realtime or Snapshot API data
A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs
Realtime API
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High-volume reusers currently rely heavily on the changes that are pushed from our community to update their products in real-time, using EventStream APIs to access such changes. High-volume reusers are interested in a service that will allow them to filter the changes they receive to limit their processing, guarantee stable HTTP connections to ensure no data loss, and supply a more useful schema to limit the number of API calls they need to make per event.
The Enterprise Realtime API allows users to stream updates in real-time from any supported Wikimedia project.
Streaming: Receive streaming (firehose) updates of every change as they occur in real-time
Batch: Download compressed snapshot files of incremental updates every hour
Instant updates for new content, any edits, deletions, and breaking news events including community-curated visibility changes
Filtering of events by Project or Revision Namespace
A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs with guaranteed connections
Contracted accounts receive 99% SLA and support response-time guarantees. All accounts have access to our introductory onboarding resources and help center faqs.
Team
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The Wikimedia Enterprise project is helmed by the
Commercial Partnerships
division, which sits under the
Advancement Department
in the Wikimedia Foundation. The following staff are part of Commercial Partnerships:
Business
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Lane Becker
Business Management
Amy Muller
Customer Experience
Jeremiah Luttrell
Customer support
Eloisa Granado
Sales
Product
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Christopher Petrillo
Product Management
Stephanie Delbecque
Product Management
Chuck Reynolds
Product Marketing
Francisco Navas
Product Management
Jolan Wuyts
Technical Writing
Engineering
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Haroon Shaikh
Director, Product and Engineering
Prabhat Tiwary
Software Engineering
Luvo Dlulisa
Software Engineering
Ruairi O'Donnell
Software Engineering
Ehi Enabulele
Software Engineering
Renil Thomas
Site Reliability
Surbhi Gupta
Software Engineering
Kevin Montalvá Minguet
Software Engineering
Program
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Naïké Nembetwa Nzali
Operations Management
Liam Wyatt
Community Advocacy
Jackeline Arguello
Delivery Management
Names in
bold
indicate management.
Many people from different teams also contribute significantly, including from the WMF Legal, Engineering, Partnerships, Design, Communications teams etc. Additional contract work provided by:
PartnerHero
provide customer support services;
Vuurr
are assisting our sales process; and
Super Natural Design
are the designers of the project website.
Engineering support was provided in the first years by
Speed & Function
Since December 2025, the division working on the Wikimedia Enterprise Initiative changed its name from 'Wikimedia Enterprise' to 'Commercial Partnerships', to reflect the inclusion of the Technical Partnerships team.
Governance
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The board of the LLC overseeing the project are
Ex officio
from Wikimedia Foundation leadership, representing their Wikimedia Foundation staff roles. This includes the Chief Advancement Officer
Lisa Seitz-Gruwell
; General Counsel
Stephen LaPorte
; Chief Product and Technology Officer
Selena Deckelman
; and
Lane Becker
who serves as the LLC's president. The LLC is subject to the governance of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as described on the
Wikimedia Foundation Commercial Sales and Contracts Policy
All reports and official documents of the LLC are
published on a dedicated Wikimedia Enterprise page
on the
Wikimedia Foundation Governance
website. For convenience,
annual reports
are also linked here:
Financial
2022
(calendar)
2022-2023
(fiscal year)
2023-2024
2024-2025
Technical
2024
2025
See also:
FAQ § Legal
Press
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Initial announcement - March 2021
Initial Wikimedia Foundation
Diff blogpost
note: media stories listed below are written and published independently and were neither pre-reviewed nor approved by the WMF
Of particular note:
Wired -
Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up
The Verge
Wikimedia will launch a paid service for big tech companies
TecMundo
Wikipedia will start charging Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple
(translated from Portuguese)
9 to 5 Mac
Apple might soon have to pay up for the Wikipedia data it uses
ShiftDelete.net
Wikimedia launches its paid service
(translated from Turkish)
Digital Trends Español
Wikipedia will start charging large companies
(translated from Spanish)
everyeye.it
Will Apple Soon Have Ti Pay Wikipedia For Information Taken From Siri?
(translated from Italian)
iPadizate
Apple will have to pay Wikipedia to use its data
(translated from Spanish)
T3N
Wikimedia Foundation launches paid service for Wikipedia content
(translated from German)
The Telegraph
Wikipedia plans to charge tech giants for access
iPhone Italia
Wikipedia may soon ask Apple for 'the bill'
(translated from Italian)
Mashable
Wikipedia wants to charge Google, Amazon, and Apple for using its content
MacGeneration
Apple, Google, and others could pay to mine Wikipedia information
(translated from French)
AppleInsider
Apple might soon pay for Wikipedia content
EZANIME.net
Apple will soon have to pay for the Wikipedia data it uses
(translated from Spanish)
RTL Nieuws
Wikipedia will offer payment services to tech giants
(translated from Dutch)
RPP
Wikipedia will start charging giants like Google and Apple for the information in its encyclopedia
(translated from Spanish)
Tuga Tech
Apple may have to pay to use Wikipedia data
(translated from Portuguese)
vc.ru
Wikimedia Foundation launched a commercial project - the organization plans to collect fees from technology companies
(translated from Russian)
turi2
Wikimedia launches paid service for businesses.
(translated from German)
Sec News
Wikipedia: Will Google, Amazon and Apple charge for its content?
(translated from Greek)
El Español
Wikipedia creates a paid version, but only for large companies
(translated from Spanish)
PhoneArena.com
Big Tech firms will soon have to whip out their wallets in order to use Wikipedia
Les Echos
Wikipedia wants to make Gafa pay
(translated from the french)
Resumé
The Omnicom agency is accused of forcing employees to return to the office - threatened with dismissal
(translated from Swedish)
The Mac Observer
Wikipedia Wants Big Tech to Pay for its Content
Tech Radar
Big tech companies may soon have to pay for Wikipedia content
Web Tekno
Wikipedia Seeks To Receive Money From Google And Apple For Using Its Content
(translated from Turkish)
Gridam
Wikimedia to launch paid service for internet giants
(translated from French)
MC Pro
Wikipedia will launch a paid edition for large technology platforms
(translated from Spanish)
TechStory
Wikipedia will not be free for tech-giants anymore, launches Wikimedia Enterprise
Hypebeast
Wikipedia Is Putting a Price Tag on Its Content for Big Tech Companies
Punto Informatico
Wikimedia Enterprise to debut by 2021
(translated from Italian)
Cybe Out
Google and Apple will soon have to pay Wikipedia to access its content
(translated from Italian)
SoMag News
WikiMedia is launching paid service service
C News
Wikipedia becomes paid. So far for IT giants
(translated from Russian)
Voicebot.ai
Wikipedia Will Start Charging Tech Giants and Their Voice Assistants for Data Access
voicebot.ai
Wikipedia Will Start Charging Tech Giants and Their Voice Assistants for Data Access
Hypebeast
Wikimedia Foundation announces Wikimedia paid service 'Wikimedia Enterprise'
(translated from Korean)
SDP Noticias
Wikipedia will have a paid version for companies
(translated from Spanish)
Exchange Wire
Disney to Dethrone Netflix by 2024; Wikipedia to Charge Big Tech for Content
technews.tw
Wiki will push the paid version of Wikimedia Enterprise to corporate customers, the current service is still free
(translated from Traditional Chinese)
Clubic
Wikimedia wants to make GAFA pay for more stable income
(translated from French)
El Pais
Wikipedia lanza un servicio para que las grandes tecnológicas paguen por usar su contenido
Hindustan Times
Wikipedia will launch a paid service for enterprise later this year
AIN
Wikipedia Publisher Launches Commercial Product - Wikimedia Enterprise
(translated from Russian)
Gadgety
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced its first commercial project
(translated from Hebrew)
Tivi
Now that’s enough for charity - Wikipedia is starting to ask for money for content
(translated from Finnish)
Mikro Bitti
Wikipedia is starting to sell its content - no longer just a free service
(translated from Finnish)
TechTimes
Amazon, Google, and Apple to Pay Wikipedia For Their Published Contents in the Future
Asia One
Wikipedia is launching a paid service for big tech companies
L'usine Digitale
Wikimedia wants to launch a new paid service for digital giants
(translated from French)
IThome
Wikimedia launches enterprise-level services for large commercial organizations to pay for content
(translated from Traditional Chinese)
version2.dk
Wikipedia will sell its content to businesses
(translated from Danish)
Pirate Press
Apple may soon have to pay if its wants to use data from Wikipedia
Spider's Web
Wikipedia becomes a commercial, earning entity. This is great news
(translated from Polish)
ComputerBild
Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikipedia will ask for cash in the future
(translated from German)
Cinco Días (El País)
Wikipedia will launch its paid version for companies at the end of the year
(translated from Spanish)
Vesti
Wikipedia launches a paid service for large IT companies
(translated from Bulgarian)
Slo Tech
The Wikimedia Foundation prepares paid services
(translated from Slovenian)
Web Pro News
Wikimedia Enterprise Seeks to Turn Big Tech Into Paying Customers
Stuff
Wikipedia will soon offer a paid service to Big Tech
Tech Radar Pro
Wikipedia is getting a 'premium' paid version - but you can't get it
wwwhatsnew
WIKIMEDIA TO LAUNCH A PAYMENT SERVICE FOR BUSINESSES THAT USE WIKIPEDIA DATA
(translated from Spanish)
G1
Wikipedia launches paid service for companies to use its content
(translated from Portuguese)
Sawt Beirut International
Create a paid service for companies that rely on Wikipedia data
(translated from Arabic)
UDN.com
Wikipedia bargaining war! "Free Encyclopedia" intends to discuss content payment agreement with technology giants
(translated from Traditional Chinese)
Newsgram
Wikimedia To Launch New Paid Service For Tech Giants
blog none
Launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid API service that allows corporate customers to absorb massive amounts of data in real time.
(translated from Thai)
cnBeta
Wikimedia announces the launch of a new paid content for major technology companies
(translated from Traditional Chinese)
der brutkasten
Wikipedia misses out on a business model
(translated from German)
Gadgets Now
Apple, Google may have to pay to Wikipedia in the future, here's why
lowyat.net
Wikimedia To Launch Paid Service For Tech Companies
Money Control
Wikipedia wants big tech to pay up for using its database
Techshout
Wikipedia Wants Google, Facebook and Others To Pay For Using Its Content
Milenio
Will you still be able to consult it? Wikipedia presents its paid version, oriented to companies
(translated from Spanish)
Canal RCN
Wikipedia will launch a paid version for companies
(translated from Spanish)
nuevodiario.web
Wikipedia announces its first paid version aimed at large companies
(translated from Spanish)
El Heraldo
Won't it be FREE anymore? Wikipedia announces new paid version
(translated from Spanish)
New Kerala
Wikimedia plans paid service for big tech firms
Ammon News
Wikipedia turns some of its services into "paid"
(translated from Arabic)
Nexofin
Wikipedia announces that it will have a paid version
(translated from Spanish)
PocketNow
At last, Wikipedia asks tech giants to pay for solving their own problems
developpez.com
Wikipedia Finally Asks Big Businesses To Pay: Wikimedia Enterprise Will Provide New Options For Businesses Using Its Content
(translated from French)
The Times Hub
Wikipedia Launches a Service for Big Tech to Pay to Use Their Content
OnlineMarketing.de
Google and Co. should pay: Wikipedia plans payment service Wikimedia Enterprise
(translated from German)
Gigazine
Wikimedia Foundation announces offering paid "enterprise API"
(translated from Japanese)
iPhonemod.net
Apple may have to pay. If you want to use information from Wikipedia
(translated from Thai)
Lupa.cz
Wikimedia is preparing a paid service for large companies that use data from Wikipedia
(translated from Czech)
Thanh Niên
Apple will pay for Wikipedia content
(translated from Vietnamese)
Business Insider Mexico
Wikimedia will offer a payment service to companies that use its content
(translated from Spanish)
Yahoo News
Wikipedia plans to charge large organizations using its encyclopedia
Engadget
Wikipedia plans to charge large organizations using its encyclopedia
Yahoo! Finance
Wikipedia plans to charge large organizations using its encyclopedia
ITC.ua
Wikipedia will launch a paid service Wikimedia Enterprise for large companies this summer
(translated from Russian)
Micky
Apple, Google and Facebook soon to pay for Wikipedia links
HackerNews
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
Heise Online
Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Foundation creates business customer access
(translated from German)
Jablickar
Apple today: Another source has refuted the arrival of AirPods 3 and Apple may have to pay Wikipedia
(translated from Czech)
Belbalady
Baladi: Wikipedia intends to charge technology companies to use its platform
(translated from Arabic)
Feber
Wikimedia launches business payment service
(translated from Swedish)
Letem světem Applem
Apple may have to pay Wikipedia to use Siri's content
(translated from Czech)
Digital Information World
Wikipedia to Now Charge Big Tech Giants for Using Its Content
Go4it
Wikipedia introduces paid services through Wikimedia Enterprise
(translated from Romanian)
Critical Hit
Wikipedia launches a new premium service for corporates
suara.com
No longer free, Wikipedia will charge users
(translated from Indonesian)
Syoa Cincau
Wikipedia to launch a new service to make big tech companies pay for their content
Techtoday
Wikipedia will be paid, but users should not worry
(translated from Ukrainian)
Canal Tech
Wikipedia will have a paid version, but you won't be able to use it; understand the reason
(translated from Portuguese)
WIRED Italia
Wikipedia will have a paid service reserved for big techs
(translated from Italian)
WERSM
Wikimedia Creates New Paid Enterprise Service
The Hustle
Big Tech loves using Wikipedia. Now, the free site is planning an enterprise product.
dir.bg
Wikipedia will charge large organizations that use it
(translated from Bulgarian)
ProgrammableWeb
The Wikimedia Foundation Launches a Fee-Based Enterprise API
Bug.hr
Wikimedia launches a paid service for large companies
(translated from Croatian)
ilan365
Reason Use of Content: Wikipedia Will Receive Money From Google And Apple
(translated from Turkish)
De Standaard
Wikipedia is getting a paid version
(translated from Dutch)
El Universal
Wikipedia plans to start charging for its content
(translated from Spanish)
masralyoum.net
Reports: Use of Wikipedia will not be free for these parties
(translated from Arabic)
TechOrange
[Wikipedia is going to be commercialized? 】Free Wiki stepping into history, intending to charge large-scale technology companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook
(Traditional Chinese)
Sputnik News
"Wikipedia" to charge for major IT companies
(translated from Japanese)
Market Research Telecast
Wikipedia announces its first paid version for large companies
TCN
Wikipedia plans to charge a series of fees for names Apple, Google, Amazon ...
(translated from Vietnamese)
Business AM
Wikipedia will soon no longer be free for everyone
(translated from Dutch)
Tamindir
You will not be able to buy the Wikipedia Paid Membership System
(translated from Turkish)
sentieriselvaggi.it
Wikipedia's payday: Wikimedia Enterprise is born
(translated from Italian)
Tweakers
Wikimedia foundation starts a company that delivers content to tech companies for money
(translated from Dutch)
The Hindu
Wikipedia wants big tech to pay for using its content
MediaPost
Wikipedia Wants Tech To Pay Up For Content
MSN
Wikipedia is set to start charging big businesses for its encylopedia data
Game Stanza
Wikipedia is about to Charge Google, Amazon, and Apple for using its content! : Technology
Heidi.news
Wikipedia wants to bring GAFA to the cashier
(translated from French)
Hebergement Webs
Wikipedia is preparing accounts for large companies for its encyclopedia data
(translated from Lithuanian)
Abondance
Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikipedia wants to charge the big guys on the Web to use its data
(translated from French)
Xataka
What is Wikimedia Enterprise and how will paid Wikipedia affect businesses
(translated from Spanish)
The Friday Checkout
Story 3: Wikipedia getting paid
(via YouTube)
Business Insider
Apple, Amazon, and Google don't pay to integrate Wikipedia articles into their search products. The non-profit now hopes to use contracts with Big Tech to help fund 'knowledge equity' around the world.
La Stampa
Are the tech greats willing to pay to use Wikipedia?
(translated from Italian)
China Press
Wikipedia will charge a fee!
(translated from Simplified Chinese)
TecnoAndroid
Wikipedia: Apple, Amazon and Google will have to pay for the internal explanatory links
(translated from Italian)
CTWANT
Don't even think about earning so much. Wikipedia will charge the tech giants for free
(translated from Traditional Chinese)
BitPort
A really weird pairing: comes the enterprise Wikipedia
(translated from Hungarian)
Business Insider South Africa
Apple, Amazon, and Google use Wikipedia for free – but new enterprise contracts may change that
El Mundo (Pixel)
Wikipedia is paid: this is all you need to know
(translated from Spanish)
Libre Mercado
Wikipedia wants to charge Google, Facebook or Amazon for a new service
(translated from Spanish)
genk.vn
Wikipedia will ask the tech giants to stop using their platforms
(translated from Vietnamese)
itZone
Wikipedia will ask the tech giants to stop using their platforms
Corriere della Sera
Wikipedia launches Enterprise: Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook now have to pay for its content
(translated from Italian)
kumparanTech
Wikipedia Will Have Premium Version, Comotous Content is Charged
(translated from Indonesian)
iDrop News
Time to Pay? Wikipedia Is Looking for Cash from Google, Amazon, and Apple
Connect!
Wikipedia charges for its services. But it will remain free for ordinary users
(translated from Czech)
marketingprzykawie.pl
Wikipedia is launching a paid service for big tech
(translated from Polish)
El Comercio
Wikipedia announces its first paid version on the internet
(translated from Spanish)
PYMNTS
Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Apple Ordered To Pay $308.5 Million Over Patent Infringement; Multiple US States Join Texas-Led Antitrust Suit Against Google
ComputerWorld
Wikipedia on the way with new payment service: Want the tech giants to cough up
(translated from Danish)
Tokar.ua
Wikipedia will be paid for by IT giants
(translated from Ukrainian)
ZDNet France
Wikimedia Foundation wants to sell tech giants improved access to Wikipedia data
(translated from French)
HICOMM
Paid Wikipedia platform launched for technology giants
(translated from Bulgarian)
iPro Up
Wikipedia launches its paid version aimed at companies
(translated from Spanish)
Agencja Informacyjna
Wikipedia is commercializing
(translated from Polish)
Medianama
Wikimedia Introduces Paid Version Of Wikipedia For Big Tech
tyinternety
Wikipedia wants Google, Amazon and Apple to pay for using its content
(translated from Czech)
Breitbart
Wikipedia Seeks to Tighten Its Relationship with Big Tech
Nezavisne novine
Wikimedia is launching a paid service for large companies
(translated from Bosnian)
Pravda
Wikipedia will charge encyclopedia access fees from large companies
(translated from Slovak)
it resenja
Wikimedia is launching a paid service for large companies
(translated from Bosnian)
Geek.hr
Wikimedia will launch a paid service for large technology companies
(translated from Croatian)
Digital de León
Wikipedia will be paid, we tell you everything
(translated from Spanish)
Business Insider Italia
Apple, Amazon and Google take advantage of Wikipedia for free. But with the new business contracts, things could change
(translated from Italian)
Compromiso Atresmedia
Wikipedia will have a paid service (although you will never use it)
(translated from Spanish)
31Mag
Wikimedia will no longer be free for Internet giants
(translated from Italian)
SDP Noticias
Wikipedia would charge Google and Amazon for using your information
(translated from Spanish)
65 y Más
Wikipedia Enterprise: the new paid version for companies
(translated from Spanish)
GizLogic
Wikipedia Enterprise, the paid version for companies confirmed
(translated from Spanish)
denik.cz
Wikipedia no longer wants to be free, it wants to make money. Siri and Alexa will pay (translated from Czech)
Commercial launch - October 2021
Wikimedia Foundation
Press release
Of particular note:
OpenFuture -
Wikimedia Enterprise: A new part of free knowledge infrastructure
MacObserver
New Wikimedia Enterprise API Enables Public Data Access
Programmable Web
Daily API Roundup: Wikimedia, APM Terminals. Hot Stokes, Postnick
The Information
Wikimedia Foundation Asks Big Tech To Pay For Trove of Data
Golem
Wikipedia gets a commercial offer
(Translated from German)
Linux-Magazin.de
Wikimedia Enterprise has a commercial offer
(Translated from German)
First customers - June 2022
Press Release
note: media stories listed below are written and published independently and were neither pre-reviewed nor approved by the WMF
Of particular note
Tech Crunch -
Google and the Internet Archive are the first customers to pay for commercial access to Wikipedia content
The Verge -
Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information
Associations Now -
Can You Turn Your Existing Services Into a New Business Opportunity?
Tech News
Wikipedia for-profit platform launches, with Google as its first customers
Chrome Unboxed
Google partners with Wikimedia Foundation to leverage its information in Search
Media Post
Google To Pay Wikipedia For Content In Search, Knowledge Panel
Business Recorder
Google agrees to pay for beefed-up Wikipedia service
CNBC TV 18
This week in Tech: Telegram’s premium service, Google to partner with Wikipedia, and more about Nothing Phone
Lao Dong
Google becomes the first customer of Wikimedia Enterprise
The Times of India
Google paying Wikimedia Foundation to access its content more efficiently
Domain B
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
PC Guia
Google will pay for content to Wikipedia
India Today
Google to work with Wikimedia Enterprise to access and use Wikipedia content
My Navi News
Google et al. Became the first customer of "Wikimedia Enterprise" to acquire 100 million pages of content via API
BFM Tech
GOOGLE WILL PAY WIKIPEDIA BY BECOMING ITS FIRST CUSTOMER
The News International
Google agrees to pay for beefed-up Wikipedia service
Siasat Daily, The
Google paying Wikimedia Foundation to access its content more efficiently
ZD Net
Wikimedia Enterprise announces its first customer: Google
Metro Libre
Internet Archive and Google, first clients of Wikimedia Enterprise
California 18
Google will pay Wikipedia for the use of its content on its search engine
Siecle Digital
Google and Internet Archives are the first customers of Wikimedia Enterprise
Le Courrier
Google becomes a Wikipedia customer
Sempre Update
Google starts paying the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia administrator
Business Insider Netherlands
In addition to news media, Google will now also pay Wikipedia for sharing information
Economic Times
Google paying Wikimedia Foundation to access its content more efficiently
Europa Press
Internet Archive y Google, primeros clientes de Wikimedia Enterprise
La Nacion
Internet Archive and Google, the first Wikimedia Enterprise customers
Business Insider India
Google becomes one of the first companies to pay Wikimedia - the group behind Wikipedia
WION
Search giant Google ready to pay for enhanced Wikipedia services
New India Express
Google agrees to pay for ramped-up Wikipedia service
Tweakers
Internet Archive gets free access to commercial Wikimedia Enterprise API
CN Beta
Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and the Internet Archive as its first customers
Gigazine
The Wikimedia Foundation officially released the paid API service "Wikimedia Enterprise", and the first customers are Google and Internet Archive.
Radio Canada
Google becomes one of the first customers of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia
Le Numeriques
Google will pay to have better access to Wikipedia
Exame
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
Lesoir
Google becomes a Wikipedia customer
Madison Leader Gazzette, The
Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information
wwwhatsnew
Estos son los primeros clientes de Wikimedia Enterprise: Google y Internet Archive
Golem De
Google pays for use of Wikipedia content
Bolly Inside
To improve access to information, Google is funding the Wikimedia Foundation
Voonze
These are the first clients of Wikimedia Enterprise: Google and Internet Archive
Next Impact
Wikimedia Enterprise announces its first two customers: Google and Internet Archive
Diario De Penambuco
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
Olhardigital
Google partners with the company responsible for Wikipedia
3d News
The first clients of Wikimedia Enterprise were Google and Internet Archive
Nieuws
Google will pay for information from Wikipedia
Estado de Minas
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
Le Figaro
Google will pay for information from Wikipedia
France 24
Google becomes a Wikipedia customer
Heise Online
Wikipedia finds celebrity buyers for access to free info
Excelsior
Google makes a deal with Wikipedia, they will pay for content
RFI
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
CNBC TV 18
Google will now pay Wikimedia for improved access to information
ENCA
Google agrees to pay for Wikipedia content
El Universal
Google becomes a Wikipedia client
NDTV Gadgets
Google Agrees to Pay for Wikipedia Content Displayed on Search Engine
Tech Crunch
Google and the Internet Archive are the first customers to pay for commercial access to Wikipedia content
25th Birthday customer announcement - January 2026
Wikimedia Foundation
Press release
& Wikimedia Enterprise
blogpost
note: media stories listed below are written and published independently and were neither pre-reviewed nor approved by the WMF. Some publications described this as a "licensing" deal - which is a misrepresentation.
Reuters
The Verge
Associated Press
TechCrunch
ArsTechnica
Washington Post
Engadget
CNBC
Observer
Forbes
See also
edit
API:Main page
– MediaWiki Action API documentation
Wikitech: Data Services
portal – A list of community-facing services that allow for direct access to databases and dumps, as well as web interfaces for querying and programmatic access to data stores.
Enterprise hub
– a page for those interested in using the MediaWiki software in corporate contexts.
MediaWiki Stakeholders group
– an independent affiliate organisation that advocates for the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation, including for-profit enterprises.
Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
– an independent conference series for that community.
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