Overview
- The Wikimedia Foundation said Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity and Mistral joined its Wikimedia Enterprise service over the past year, with Google already a client since 2022.
- OpenAI has not reached a licensing agreement, even as major AI developers rely on Wikipedia for training data.
- Enterprise provides structured, high-volume feeds tailored for commercial use, creating a revenue stream to support the donation-funded, volunteer-run encyclopedia.
- The foundation reported an 8% drop in human visits and warned that undisclosed bot scraping is straining infrastructure, while Spain’s edition has seen visits fall by about half.
- Wikipedia counts more than 65 million articles across 300+ languages edited by roughly 250,000 volunteers, and the foundation plans editor-assistive AI tools as CEO Maryana Iskander departs Jan. 20 for Bernadette Meehan.