On Wikipedia's 25th birthday, the nonprofit finally extracted something from the companies that strip-mine its content: checks. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying for enterprise access to the world's largest encyclopedia. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the deals Wednesday with the quiet satisfaction of a landlord who finally caught the tenants using utilities they weren't paying for.
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