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Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

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Post by ks2048 » Tue, May 21, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More
enterprise.wikimedia.com

Re: Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

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Post by mushufasa » Tue, May 21, 2024, 8:59 PM UTC

Yet this also exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

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Post by nickpsecurity » Tue, May 21, 2024, 8:59 PM UTC

I was hoping more groups did stuff like this. The free sites doing it could handle some copyright issues if their EULA had a built-in license for distribution.

In my previous analysis, (IIRC) I found that Wikipedia articles were under a copyleft license with attribution requirements. Does how Wikipedia Enterprise delivers this bypass that where neither use nor derivatives have those requirements? Or are they ignoring the licensing requirements which still legally apply to enterprise customers? Or are they not even claiming to address it?

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Post by deegles » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:08 PM UTC

Looking forward to seeing the details on how they will handle revenue sharing with all of the people who contribute to them.

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Post by s1k3s » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:11 PM UTC

> Real-time access to Knowledge

Wikipedia knowledge is basically "democracy" knowledge, i.e. the more people decided to support an idea, the "truer" it gets. That's not knowledge at all!

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Post by riku_iki » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:12 PM UTC

mushufasa wrote: post #2

Yet this also exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

for now

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Post by riku_iki » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

deegles wrote: post #4

Looking forward to seeing the details on how they will handle revenue sharing with all of the people who contribute to them.

are they obligated?..

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Post by itishappy » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

mushufasa wrote: post #2

Yet this also exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Wikimedia is Wikipedia's parent entity, but it's also the parent of:

    MediaWiki
    Wikibooks
    Wikidata
    Wikifunctions
    Wikimedia Commons
    Wikinews
    Wikiquote
    Wikisource
    Wikispecies
    Wikiversity
    Wikivoyage
    Wiktionary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

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Post by paxys » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:14 PM UTC

mushufasa wrote: post #2

Yet this also exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Which is a good thing. The entire corpus is CC-licensed and anyone can download it for free. If you want a real-time API, performance SLAs, machine parsable formats, support etc. then pay for it.

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Post by paxys » Tue, May 21, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

deegles wrote: post #4

Looking forward to seeing the details on how they will handle revenue sharing with all of the people who contribute to them.

If you want monetary compensation you should not be contributing to Wikipedia. Otherwise apply to work there as an employee.