A Partnership for Sustainability of Knowledge and the Planet
Wikimedia Enterprise has announced an exciting new partnership with Ecosia. The Berlin-based search engine aims to enhance the search experience for millions of users through the integration of structured, multilingual, and verifiable Wikipedia content in its search results. Wikipedia knowledge panels are now enhancing the quality of information available to users, while championing environmental and digital sustainability.
How Ecosia Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Deliver Rich, Structured Content
For a lean team like Ecosia’s, integrating structured knowledge without investing extensive engineering hours is a game-changer. Instead of manually parsing Wikipedia dumps, Ecosia taps into Wikimedia Enterprise’s machine-readable infoboxes, sections, and summaries, eliminating complex data extraction and ensuring users receive rich, accurate, and up-to-date content with minimal effort.This partnership highlights how structured, open data can empower mission-driven companies to enhance user experiences while staying focused on their core goals.
Features of the Partnership
- Daily Structured Content Delivery: Ecosia will receive up-to-date, multilingual, machine-readable structured Wikipedia data through the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs.
- Enhanced Knowledge Panels: Ecosia’s search results will include improved knowledge panels featuring verified and accurate information.
- Beta Testing Collaboration: Ecosia will collaborate with Wikimedia Enterprise in beta testing to develop and refine new features.
Leadership Insights
Lane Becker, President of Wikimedia Enterprise, highlighted the importance of the partnership, stating:
“This initiative reflects our broader mission to democratize access to Wikimedia content. By providing streamlined integration tools, we’re lowering barriers for smaller companies and innovators who previously might have found such integration technically or resource-intensive. Specifically, through the pre-parsing and structuring of Wikipedia data, we eliminate the need for organizations to build and maintain their own complex data processing systems. This helps ensure that reliable, free knowledge can reach more people through a diverse ecosystem of services.”
Michael Metcalf, Chief Product Officer at Ecosia, emphasized the collaboration’s potential, saying:
“We are delighted to partner with the Wikimedia Foundation and make their knowledge base directly accessible to Ecosia users. By integrating Wikimedia content into Ecosia search results, we’re making it easier than ever for our users to access reliable and comprehensive information while contributing to reforestation through their searches. This partnership exemplifies our commitment to providing a superior search experience that empowers users to learn, explore, and make a positive impact on the planet.”
About Ecosia
Ecosia, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, is a search engine with a difference, dedicating its profits to global reforestation efforts.
Every search query generates revenue, which is then used to plant trees and support global environmental projects. Since its inception, Ecosia has planted millions of trees, demonstrating that technological innovation can go hand-in-hand with environmental responsibility. Ecosia’s commitment to reforestation, allocating 100% of its profits to tree-planting initiatives, allows it to run on 100% renewable energy, making it a truly green search engine. Learn more about Ecosia and their initiatives!
About Wikimedia Enterprise
Wikimedia Enterprise is a team within the Wikimedia Foundation dedicated to making Wikipedia projects data accessible at scale through enterprise-grade APIs. These APIs provide pre-parsed and machine readable, structured content for easy integration, with high quality signals to identify edits and revisions, and support for organizations, large-scale commercial reusers, and users of all kinds, to utilize Wikipedia projects effectively. Wikimedia Enterprise ensures the sustainability of the free knowledge ecosystem by keeping data open and accessible to all!
If your organization seems like a good fit to work with us, please contact us!
— Wikimedia Enterprise Team