[nickvincent]

Worth emphasizing that this is described as basically just adding new ways to consume Wikipedia at scale, not taking anything away (not that that's impossible in the future, but unlikely IMO). In theory, systems that use a lot of Wikipedia data (search engines, "AI" assistant/question answering systems, language models) can keep doing what they're doing with Wikipedia dumps, but new APIs could make these services better (e.g., faster reaction time to current events).

A big upside of testing this out is the opportunity to keep better track of what services are Wikipedia-dependent. While search results often send people to Wikipedia (see e.g. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/23/searching-for-wikipedi...), voice assistants or Q&A systems might be (i.e. likely are) surfacing Wikipedia content in more subtle fashion. Same with large language models. Under status quo, it will be increasingly hard to track these relationships, so exploring alternatives is well worth it.

[chaps]

This probably won't do that much on that side of things -- it'd be trivial to mask relationships through proxy orgs and such.