Key Highlights
- This comes after the non-profit first signed a deal with Google in 2022, and other smaller players such as Ecosia in 2025, the AP report noted.
- Free to use, Wikipedia is the ninth most visited website on the internet.
- It has over 65 million articles in 300 languages, edited by around 2,50,000 volunteers.
- These deals with AI companies are significant, because in 2024, Wikipedia reported an 8% decline in human pageviews caused by increasing generative AI (gen AI) provided answers on search engines that do not direct readers to individual websites.
- The Wikimedia Foundation had then noted that evolving internet trends and sophisticated bot traffic are reshaping how people access information globally.
