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众所周知，一些大公司使用了我们项目的数据。这些公司意识到如果没有维基媒体项目，他们就无法为自己的用户提供如此丰富或可靠的使用体验。社群成员中早就有一种感觉，即这些公司应该将他们在这些内容和使用的资源上获得的利益再投资多一些给维基媒体的社群。
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 通过伙伴关系和赚取的收入，为创收和免费知识传播创造新的机会。 | |
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Wikimedia Enterprise是维基媒体基金会新的跨部门项目。该项目的目标是为使用维基媒体内容的大型营利机构建立一套服务。该项目旧称“Okapi”。
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 project data the most—through self-funding services.
除了普通的阅读和编辑之外，使用维基媒体数据的进入门槛很高。这是因为机器难以分割并理解这些内容，这就影响了维基媒体数据在我们的生态系统之外使用范围能有多广、作用能有多大。
In the Movement Strategy recommendations to increase the sustainability of our movement and improve user experience there are the recommendations to, respectively: "Explore new opportunities for both revenue generation and free knowledge dissemination through partnerships and earned income—for example...Building enterprise-level APIs," and "Make the Wikimedia API suite more comprehensive, reliable, secure and fast, in partnership with large scale users.... and improve awareness of and ease of attribution and verifiability for content reusers."
This led to the idea of developing a new approach that is more sustainable in the long term and provides a much clearer relationship between Wikimedia and enterprise users. Most financial benefit for Wikimedia would likely only come from a very small handful of heavy for-profit users, and would feed back into the Wikimedia movement.
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.
概况
Wikimedia Enterprise主要关注的是重复使用我们内容的商业机构，通常是大规模的——例如把内容整合进知识图谱、搜索引擎、语音助手、地图、新闻、社群工具、第三方应用以及完整语料研究的机构。将维基媒体为数众多的数据集切割开，在我们无系统性的内容背后构建出一套体系，就能够让我们的内容重用者满足他们各自的需求，也能让我们在未来为所有人打造新工具、提供新服务。我们内容的重用者寻求的是三个关键要素：
- 效率：定期的维基媒体项目最新数据快照
- 可靠：可信赖的、易使用的底层系统
- 质量：一个“最好的最终版本”
Emphasizing a self-funding set of specific use cases allows the Wikimedia API team to focus on volunteers, teams, and organizations looking to access (and, most importantly, interact with) our data sets. This includes the majority of community editing tools, which will be out of scope for this service. For more information on improvements to the existing Wikimedia APIs see the service page on the "API Gateway" initiative.
Program Goals:
- Content: Make more of our movement's content available in consistent machine-readable formats, freely available for all researchers and re-users.
- Resource-load: Reduce the need for high-intensity site-scraping by the highest-frequency and highest-volume reusers, which currently target our production servers.
- Fundraising: Provide a clearer and more consistent way for the largest re-users to reinvest derived benefits back to the movement, instead of making occasional altruistic donations that vary in size.
Community
Contact the team if you would like to arrange a conversation about this service with your community, at a time and meeting software platform of your choice.
Past public meetings:
2021年3月 #1 & 2021年3月 #2, 2021年4月, 2022年6月, 2023年2月
...and also at the EMWCon Spring 2021 conference (video); March and July 2022 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meetings; the May 2021 Wikimedia Clinic; at Wikimania in 2021 and 2023.
Following are the introduction paragraphs for a much more detailed Community essay.
Libre and Gratis are the two meanings of “free,” commonly phrased as free as in speech, or free as in beer.
Wikimedia projects are, have always been, and will always remain libre. The principles of free cultural works mean that anyone can use Wikimedia without restriction, including commercially. As a movement, we embrace this. It is why we reject ‘non-commercial’ licenses, as they would limit the kinds of reuse possible. And it is why we consider commercial reuse an important means of distributing knowledge to audiences.
Equally, Wikimedia projects are, have always been, and will always remain gratis. The ability to freely access the knowledge available across all Wikimedia projects has always been core to the mission of the Foundation and the movement. We provide this access not only to individuals visiting our websites but also programmatically to machines so that our content can be repurposed in other environments. The full corpus of Wikimedia content always has been, and will continue to be, made available for reuse in various forms (including but not limited to database dumps, APIs, and scraping) at no cost.
As a result, our content is often repurposed by for-profit organizations that rely on it to support their business models, and which consequently earn revenue from it. Outside of voluntary corporate donations to the Wikimedia Foundation, the movement has never received benefits from any of this revenue through return investment. In acknowledgement of this, under the heading of Increase the sustainability of our movement the Movement Strategy process asked the Wikimedia Foundation to explore, among other things, “enterprise-level APIs...models for enterprise-scale for-profit reusers, taking care to avoid revenue dependencies or other undue external influence in product design and development.” Furthermore, under the heading Improve User Experience, a further recommendation stated, "Make the Wikimedia API suite more comprehensive, reliable, secure, and fast, in partnership with large scale users where that aligns with our mission and principles, to improve the user experience of both our direct and indirect users, increase the reach and discoverability of our content and the potential for data returns, and improve awareness of and ease of attribution and verifiability for content reusers."
The Enterprise project team is developing a new resource aimed at for-profit content reusers, who have product, service, and system requirements that go beyond what we freely provide. Use of this offering will not be required for for-profit content reuse; companies can continue to use the current tools available at no cost. All Enterprise API revenue will unequivocally be used to support the Wikimedia mission—for example, to fund Wikimedia programs or help grow the Wikimedia Endowment.
This project represents a new kind of activity at the Foundation. The project is at a very early stage that should be considered a learning period. We will have successes, we will make mistakes, and we will need to adapt our strategies. The team is committed to listening, engaging, and where possible, integrating the feedback we get on our work. This document is organic and is reflective of the team's current thinking; we are attempting to document as much work as possible in the open. Up until now, our work has been shaped by a series of initial interviews with community members, Wikimedia Foundation Board and staff, researchers, and reusers.
...continue to read the rest of the Community essay. See also the FAQ and Principles.
Given the nature of the service, primary decision making for it will rest with the Wikimedia Foundation. We are seeking community input, in particular from the technical community and those who have been involved in the strategy process, throughout the lifetime of the service. Technical feedback has been gathered from colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, industry and research partners, technical partners across the movement, and with the broader technical communities via Phabricator. Input into the funding development side of the service will follow a similar pattern. We will continue gathering input via research interviews and focus groups, as well feedback here on Meta as per our principles.
Access
有三种方法获得企业版API数据集的使用权：
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All content is freely-licensed (see also the project's principles).
- 付费
- Realtime API (Batch and Streaming) and daily dump file in NDJSON format through the Enterprise API dedicated product website: enterprise.wikimedia.com.
- 免费
- Creating an account via the Enterprise API product website includes 5,000 on-demand API requests that refresh monthly (including the Structured Contents endpoint) and twice-monthly snapshot API files in NDJSON format at no cost (refreshes on the 2nd and 21st of each month).
- Several datasets are available outside of the WME website. An update of the Enterprise API data is provided for all every two weeks on the Wikimedia Dumps site. Several Beta datasets are also available on HuggingFace.
- The Snapshot API and Realtime (Batch) are available via Data services to anyone with a Wikimedia cloud services account.
- Those who have a non-commercial and mission-relevant use-case, which cannot be fulfilled by existing free-access APIs/dumps etc, can request expanded access to the API service at either reduced cost or no cost depending on usage and application.
Technical
For full information about the product, see the regular technical updates on MediaWiki.org and the documentation page.
Over time, the "API product" being offered will grow and improve. This information is accurate as of September 2024.
Overview
All of our APIs return the same structured JSON (or ND-JSON) response format making it easy to augment one API with another. Three APIs; same data, different retrieval methods:
- Retrieve bulk data with the Snapshot API
- Receive changes instantly with Realtime API streaming
- Retrieve single articles with the On-demand API
API responses include article data such as summary, image, Wikidata QID, license, and more. Also included is data specific to the last revision, such as editor, size of change, and credibility score with revert probability.
On-demand API
Reusers that use an infrastructure reliant on the EventStream platform depend on services like RESTBase to pull HTML from page titles and current revisions to update their products. High-volume reusers have requested a reliable means to gather this data, as well as structures other than HTML when incorporating our content into their KGs and products.
The Wikimedia Enterprise On-demand API allows users to retrieve single articles from any Wikimedia project at anytime.
- Make standard HTTP requests to retrieve documents by ID or name from all projects and languages, or use filters to limit response
- Request the latest page data anytime to augment your Realtime or Snapshot API data
- A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs
Realtime API
High-volume reusers currently rely heavily on the changes that are pushed from our community to update their products in real time, using EventStream APIs to access such changes. High-volume reusers are interested in a service that will allow them to filter the changes they receive to limit their processing, guarantee stable HTTP connections to ensure no data loss, and supply a more useful schema to limit the number of api calls they need to make per event.
The Enterprise Realtime API allows users to stream updates in real-time from any Wikimedia project.
- Streaming: Receive streaming updates (firehose) of every change as they occur in real-time
- Batch: Download compressed snapshot files of incremental updates every hour
- Instant updates for new content, any edits, deletions, and breaking news events including community-curated visibility changes
- Filtering of events by Project or Revision Namespace
- A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs with guaranteed connections
Snapshot API
For high volume reusers that currently rely on the Wikimedia Dumps to access our information, we have created a solution to ingest Wikimedia content in near real time without excessive API calls (On-demand API) or maintaining hooks into our infrastructure (Realtime).
The Enterprise Snapshot API allows users to retrieve entire Wikimedia projects as a database dump file.
- Download a compressed file containing everything in any project, in any language
- Article body in HTML as well as Wikitext
- Up to a daily snapshots cadence
- 24-hour JSON, Wikitext, or HTML compressed dumps of "text-based" Wikimedia projects
- A hourly update file with revision changes of "text-based" Wikimedia projects
- A wide range of commercial and consolidated schemas under SLAs
- SLA and Support
Contracted accounts receive 99% SLA and support response time guarantees. All accounts have access to our introductory onboarding resources and help center faqs.
Team
The Wikimedia Foundation staff who work specifically on this project:
Business
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Christopher Petrillo
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Stephanie Delbecque
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Engineering
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Ricardo Esquito
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Luvo Dlulisa
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Ruairi O'Donnell
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Ehi Enabulele
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Program
Names in bold indicate management.
Many people from different teams also contribute significantly, including from the WMF Legal, Engineering, Partnerships, Design, Communications teams etc. Additional contract work provided by: PartnerHero provide customer support services; Vuurr are assisting our sales process; and Super Natural Design are the designers of the project website.
Governance
The board of the LLC overseeing the project are Ex officio from Wikimedia Foundation leadership, representing their Wikimedia Foundation staff roles. This includes the Chief Advancement Officer Lisa Seitz-Gruwell; General Counsel Stephen LaPorte; Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelman; and Lane Becker who serves as the LLC's president. The LLC is subject to the governance of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as described at the Wikimedia Foundation Board Statement on Wikimedia Enterprise revenue principles.
All reports and official documents of the LLC are published on a dedicated Wikimedia Enterprise page on the Wikimedia Foundation Governance website. For convenience, annual reports are also linked here:
- 2022年 (calendar)
- 2022年-2023年 (fiscal)
- 2023年-2024年
Press
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See also
- API:Main page – MediaWiki Action API documentation
- Wikitech: Data Services portal – A list of community-facing services that allow for direct access to databases and dumps, as well as web interfaces for querying and programmatic access to data stores.
- Enterprise hub – a page for those interested in using the MediaWiki software in corporate contexts.
- MediaWiki Stakeholders group – an independent affiliate organisation that advocates for the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation, including for-profit enterprises.
- Enterprise MediaWiki Conference – an independent conference series for that community.