Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain
Translate this page; This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Liam Wyatt / Diff : Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Wikipedia Will Start Charging Tech Giants and Their Voice Assistants for Data Access Nadeem Sarwar / Pocketnow : At last, Wikipedia asks tech giants to pay for solving their own problems Alan Friedman / phonearena.com : Big Tech firms will soon have to whip out their wallets in order to use Wikipedia Steven Hung / Micky : Apple, Google and Facebook soon to pay for Wikipedia links Mike Moore / TechRadar : Wikipedia is getting a ‘premium’ paid version - but you can't get it Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple might soon have to pay up for the Wikipedia data it uses Joe Wituschek / iMore : Apple may soon have to pay if its wants to use data from Wikipedia Matt Binder / Mashable : Wikipedia wants to charge Google, Amazon, and Apple for using its content Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews : Big Tech firms are facing a big bill from Wikipedia - here's why Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Apple might soon pay for Wikipedia content Adi Robertson / The Verge : Wikimedia will launch a paid service for big tech companies Tweets: @wikimedia : Now introducing... the Wikimedia Enterprise API! An opt-in product for commercial entities that could improve the way they reuse/deliver Wikimedia data, helping make more free knowledge available to more people. Get details via @noamcohen in @WIRED. ⤵️ https://www.wired.com/... Annemarie Bridy / @annemariebridy : A significant moment/development in the history of the WWW: Wikipedia develops an enterprise offering to secure its future as a critical pillar of the Internet's knowledge infrastructure. https://www.wired.com/... Meredith Broussard / @merbroussard : This is the last nail in the coffin of the free Web envisioned by the hippies. I only bought into their vision very briefly in the early 90s, but I will pour one out for the passing of an era. https://twitter.com/... Nick Vincent / @nickmvincent : Hopeful for this! In light of huge value WMF provides to other platforms, it is great to see opportunities for WMF to see economic benefits w/o compromising its core model. Rly like the notion of WMF bringing “sensible urban planning” to an internet dominated by commercial values https://twitter.com/... Raju Narisetti / @raju : For all the large companies that tap into the common good that @Wikipedia is for their own for-profit needs, an opportunity to more formally help support the free platform's growth and upkeep And it will remain unchanged and (ads)free for all https://www.wired.com/...? via @wired @chrismessina : If Facebook and Google have to pay Rupert Murdoch for his fake news, then perhaps Google, Apple, and others should finally pay Wikipedia for its true facts. https://twitter.com/... Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : “The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost” (And Wikipedia uses unpaid moderator labor, news outlets, journalists, academics, nonfiction authors, etc. at no cost? Errrr...) https://www.wired.com/... Aoife White / @aoifewhite101 : “Google and Wikipedia have been in a kind of unspoken partnership: Wikipedia produces the information Google serves up in response to user queries, and Google builds up Wikipedia's reputation as a source of trustworthy information.” https://www.wired.com/... Geert Lovink / @glovink : “The Big Four all lean on the Wikipedia at no cost.” (Wired) Will the proposal finally give transparency about a failed secret marriage or will the proposed Enterprise merely create new dependencies? Is this future commons or a Silicon Valley insider deal? https://www.wired.com/... Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : Wikipedia is making its live changelog a paid service, for easier indexing by Google, Bing, etc. This is a smart way to support Wikimedia's work $-wise without screwing up the web (in contrast to Australia's shakedown scheme) https://www.wired.com/... Romain Dillet / @romaindillet : Alternative headline: Wikipedia to become addicted to new revenue stream from big tech companies like @mozilla https://www.wired.com/... James Heilman / @wikidocjames : Great article on Wikipedia's attempt to rebalance power within the tech world by @noamcohen https://www.wired.com/... Tony Sebro / @keynote2k : I'm excited to see this project get publicly announced. \o/ #WikimediaEnterprise https://www.wired.com/... @wired : EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia wants to change its relationships with Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—each relies on the internet encyclopedia as a cost-free resource for their profitable platforms and virtual assistants. https://www.wired.com/... Tim Bray / @timbray : Hmm... “seems sane” or “very very dangerous”? What the article hints but doesn't say is that the volunteer editors have, in effect, a collective veto. There are certainly shapes this deal could take that would make me walk away from editing. https://www.wired.com/... See also Mediagazer