Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created

The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms, has revealed it’s signed six more AI companies as ‘enterprise partners’, status that gives them preferential access to the content it tends.

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 ...