The free platform of Wikipedia is one of the most important references on the Internet around the world, it provides a huge amount of information to users in all languages, and the information in it generally tends to be simplistic, in addition to the most important point, which is that it is free, but Wikipedia wants to review At this point, even if it is not related to ordinary users, so there is no need to worry.
A number of reports have indicated during the past days that the Wikipedia Foundation, which is the non-profit organization that oversees the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is planning to end free use of information from its knowledge platform for major companies in the digital world, especially Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others Note that it is known that the Foundation depends entirely on contributions for its financing, as the level of its financing reaches $ 100 million, and this is the amount that even technology companies contribute to, including Google, for example.
However, Wikipedia believes that technology companies exploit Wikipedia's content for free, similar to ordinary users, as reports indicate that the non-profit Wikipedia Foundation plans to launch a new section called Wikipedia Enterprise, which is the section that will oversee the launch of a commercial product that designs Wikipedia content for publication on Services provided by global technology companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube and others.
The Wikipedia Foundation says that technology companies have employees or even entire teams working to provide Wikipedia content through their own systems, while the paid service that Wikipedia Enterprise will start offering will help do this work for them, which means bringing a new revenue stream to the nonprofit. .
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