Jun 22, 2022 12:00:00

Wikimedia Foundation officially releases paid API service 'Wikimedia Enterprise', first customers are Google and Internet Archive

The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the Internet encyclopedia '

Wikipedia ', officially released the enterprise API service ' Wikimedia Enterprise ' on June 21, 2022. Wikimedia Enterprise will be useful for developing search engines and machine learning projects that use project data managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. It has also been announced that the first customers are Google , the largest search engine, and the Internet Archive , which stores data existing on the Web.

Hello World, From Wikimedia Enterprise
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/news/hello-world/

Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as its first customers; allows new customers to self sign-up for free trials – Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/

Released this time, Wikimedia Enterprise is a service that provides flexible access to data on projects managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary , Wikibooks , Wikisource , Wikiquote , Wikivoyage , Wikiversity , and Wikinews . is. Wikimedia Enterprise is supposed to be used for the development of search engines, voice assistants, machine learning, etc.

There are three types of APIs provided by Wikimedia Enterprise: ' Snapshot ', ' On-demand ', and ' Realtime '. The features and prices of each API are as follows.

Snapshot: You can take a snapshot of the Wikimedia project. Snapshots are taken daily and monthly. Prices start at $ 5 per GB (about 680 yen).
On-demand: You can get any article from any project in the Wikimedia project. Prices start at $ 0.1 per request.
Realtime: Incremental files can be downloaded every hour. Receive notifications of edits and deletions by the Wikimedia project community. Prices start at $ 100,000 a year.

You can also create a trial account that allows you to 'take monthly snapshots' and '10,000 requests for on-demand' for free from the following pages.

Wikimedia Enterprise Dashboard
https://dashboard.enterprise.wikimedia.com/signup/

It has been announced that the first customer of Wikimedia Enterprise is Google. Internet Archive also provides all the features of Wikimedia Enterprise for free to accomplish the mission of 'Archiving the Web'. The Wikimedia Foundation will continue to expand its enterprise products, including developing tools to prevent the spread of false and disinformation.

Wikimedia Enterprise is an opt-in product for commercial use, and functions such as viewing and editing Wikipedia, which were previously available for free, will continue to be provided free of charge.