> I don’t see anything about anyone paying the content creators. The knowledge contributed to Wikimedia is understood to be public knowledge. Any contributions

> I don’t see anything about anyone paying the content creators. The knowledge contributed to Wikimedia is understood to be public knowledge. Any contributions are considered voluntary and available to the general public. This includes profit driven corporations who want to create a service wrapper around Wikimedia content or serve the content in a different presentation (licenses withstanding). > ...not to try to provide a free service for a profit driven corporation. I personally feel like this is a fair step. Since contributions are made for public consumption, it makes sense that for-profit corporations whose products depend on Wikimedia APIs would pay for access to those APIs. They're not paying for the data; that's free to the public. They're paying ensure their presentation has a guaranteed level of availability and support[0]. The end result is the same: knowledge contributors aren't paid for additions or edits. The context behind the payments are different. [0]: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/pricing/ https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/pricing/