Wikimedia Enterprise lets companies access the Wikimedia content that sources and reuses Wikipedia along with Wikimedia projects at a high volume. Managing director, Search Partnerships at Google, Tim Palmer says that Wikipedia is a unique and valuable resource that is created freely for the world that too by its dedicated volunteer community. They have always supported Wikimedia Foundation in pursuit of their shared goals to expand knowledge and info access for people around the globe. Wikimedia Enterprise was recently launched by the Wikimedia Foundation as an opt-in product. With this service, any number of customers can gain access to the service’s offering. This includes Service Legal Agreement at prices as per their volume of use and Customer support. The companies can also take a free trial by signing up on the website. The free trial account offers 10,000 on-demand requests and unlimited access to a 30-day Snapshot. The organization says that the number of users exploring the use of their service is growing. However, it is still not a requirement to use the commercial product even if the user is accessing the data on a large scale. As per their deal, Google and Wikimedia are now working together for making the content sourcing process more efficient. In the meantime, the internet archive, that runs the Wayback Machine which is the digital archive will leverage the commercial service for improving its offerings. Knowledge panels, which was introduced back in 2012 has helped Google to offer info from Wikipedia to all the searchers that too quickly.
