"The org revealed the new partnerships in a post celebrating its 25th birthday, and which points out it is among the world's ten most-visited websites, and the only one to be run by a nonprofit. The post notes that 250,000 editors work on at least one Wikipedia article each month, and that editors make 324 changes each minute as they contribute to the 65 million-plus articles the site contains. 1.5 billion unique devices reach Wikipedia each month."
"That's a lot of traffic to handle, which doesn't come cheap. One way the Foundation pays for it is with an Enterprise program that offers a suite of APIs designed to provide "more comprehensive, reliable, secure and fast" access to info from the org's projects. The Foundation developed the Enterprise offering to serve the needs of "a very small handful of heavy for-profit users" and promised their fees would "feed back into the Wikimedia movement.""
""Access to high quality, trustworthy information is at the heart of how we think about the future of AI at Microsoft," he said in a canned statement. "Together, we're helping create a sustainable content ecosystem for the AI internet, where contributors are valued, communities are respected, and responsible AI expands opportunity for everyone.""
Wikimedia Foundation signed six additional Enterprise Partners—Ecosia, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Pleias, and ProRata—joining existing AI partners including Amazon, Google, and Meta. The Enterprise program offers APIs that provide more comprehensive, reliable, secure and fast access to project information for a small number of heavy for-profit users. Fees from the program are intended to feed back into the Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia reaches 1.5 billion unique devices monthly and hosts over 65 million articles. About 250,000 editors contribute monthly, making roughly 324 edits per minute. Volunteer contributions help sustain Wikimedia and support partner services.
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