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| Last Release Date: | 2021/03/17 |
| Branches: | Internet services, Education and science |
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2021: Paid access for IT giants
The Wikimedia Foundation, managing Wikipedia, will offer IT giants paid access to free free Internet encyclopedia materials at high speed, in a suitable format and with technical support. This became known on March 17, 2021.
The Wikimedia Foundation plans to charge for the provision of Wikipedia Internet encyclopedia content and related projects directly to IT giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Negotiations between the fund's newly created subsidiary, Wikimedia LLC and large technology companies are already underway for March 2021. However, the fund will have to study the reaction of the community of users of the encyclopedia, which is engaged in the preparation and updating of content on a voluntary basis. Wikimedia expects to reach agreements with interested IT companies by June 2021.
As part of the package, Enterprise Wikimedia plans (apparently through a special one) API to provide real-time changes and comprehensive dumps data in a format suitable for business customers. In addition, commercial customers will be offered telephone support. A separate team of specialists will be formed specifically to solve emerging technical problems.
The paid service Wikimedia does not plan to use its own server infrastructure. Instead, the fund expects to resort to the services of the infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS)[1]
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