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OK, can anyone explain succinctly what "Wikimedia Enteprise" actually is, as a product? It is described as a product. What does it do? The press release isn't

• david_allison 4y ago
  https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/ https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/ - an API to access Wikimedia content: * Snapshots of a Wikimedia project - updated daily * On-demand access to articles * Hook into a stream of changes to articles
  • jrochkind1 4y ago
    Huh. Some of that I think some people hoped would be available (for free) via things like WikiData. I guess nobody should wait for that. My somewhat concern is that the wikipedia project has kind of put a flag in the ground to say that providing free access to wikipedia is no longer part of their mission if it's automated/bulk access.
    • kemayo 4y ago
      For what it's worth, WikiData is something different -- it's a knowledge graph, and so is mostly a way to get a list of facts about a specific item. Which is useful, and gets used as an input into a lot of things on Wikipedia, but is unrelated to this sort of firehose-API.
    • M2Ys4U 4y ago
      >My somewhat concern is that the wikipedia project has kind of put a flag in the ground to say that providing free access to wikipedia is no longer part of their mission if it's automated/bulk access. I think this is more about paying for an SLA and support agreement which is less tenable as an open free-for-all
• bawolff 4y ago
  My personal theory is that its a mildly better bulk api, with that less being a needed thing, but more a way for big org to justify "donating" by paying for something.