As a Wikipedia contributor and admin (in one country) since early days, I urge everyone to read the original description[0] of this product: > The goal of the

As a Wikipedia contributor and admin (in one country) since early days, I urge everyone to read the original description[0] of this product: > The goal of the project is to build services for large-scale for-profit reusers of Wikimedia content. [...] The focus is on organizations that want to repurpose Wikimedia content in other contexts, providing data services at a large scale, so that they are faster and more comprehensive, reliable, and secure. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to improve the user experience of Wikimedia's readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of the content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability by the organizations that reuse Wikimedia content the most—through self-funding services. This has _nothing_ to do with diverging into a free and a commercial version of Wikipedia. Wikipedia stays the same; Enterprise is just a product built on top of it that anyone can opt to pay for. This is actually to make it easier for _everyone_ to make use of the Wikipedia data in a better way; > As this idea developed, it became clear there is a responsibility to democratize our data for organizations that do not possess the resources of these largest users, to ensure we are leveling the playing field and helping to foster a healthy internet without reinforcing monopolies. The benefits of such a service shouldn't just be for startups or alternatives to the internet giants, but also for universities and university researchers; archives and archivists; along with the wider Wikimedia movement. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise