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March 20, 2021
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Wikipedia wants to make GAFA pay – The web giants have used Wikipedia's resources for years, but now Wikimedia is demanding accountability from them . With the creation of Wikimedia Enterprise , the open-source encyclopedia will monetize the use of its content by large companies . This decision particularly targets GAFA, which use the content of the collaborative encyclopedia for free. With Knol , Google had tried to free itself from this dependence on Wikipedia . But faced with the failure of this service, Google had resigned itself to continuing to highlight Wikipedia articles in its search engine, by making occasional donations to the platform .