Wikipedia Found a Way to Make Big Tech Pay. The Question Is Whether It's Enough.
Wikipedia turns 25 and announces enterprise deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. The checks are finally arriving, but the nonprofit still won't say how much.
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Wikipedia Found a Way to Make Big Tech Pay. The Question Is Whether It's Enough.
Wikipedia turns 25 and announces enterprise deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. The checks are finally arriving, but the nonprofit still won't say how much.
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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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