— In the AI era, Wikipedia’s human-created and curated knowledge has never been more valuable, Wikimedia, the encyclopedia’s parent, writes in a blog post.
They currently have more than 65 million articles in 300 languages, and get more than 15 billion views a month.
The Wikimedia Enterprise program is both a way to support Wikipedia’s efforts, as it is a paid service, and gives access to some powerful data.
The on-demand API gives labs the most recent version of specific articles, the snapshot API provides a downloadable file for every language and is updated hourly, and the realtime API is a stream of updates as they happen.
Together, they provide better access than just scraping the data off the public servers, and Wikipedia hopes for more to join, if only to stave off having to pay for extensive scanning of its archives — which is more costly.