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Wikisource Finops

Wikisource APIs carry no direct monetary cost — all three API surfaces (MediaWiki Action API, MediaWiki Core REST API, Wikimedia REST API v1) are provided free by the Wikimedia Foundation under donor funding. There are no billing lines, subscription fees, or usage tiers. FinOps considerations are therefore internal: compute and bandwidth consumed by API integrations represent an indirect cost to the consuming organisation, and compliance with Wikimedia usage policies (User-Agent, serial requests, caching) is the primary lever for keeping that indirect cost low. Organisations with high-volume Wikisource text-extraction needs should prefer bulk XML dumps from dumps.wikimedia.org over repeated API calls.

Wikisource Finops is the FinOps profile for Wikisource on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in N/A, on a n/a cycle, and pricing category free (donor-funded non-profit).

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include FinOps, FOCUS, Open Knowledge, Public Domain, and Free API.

Category: Open Data / Public Domain Texts Pricing: Free (donor-funded non-profit) Billing: N/A FOCUS v1.3
FinOpsFOCUSOpen KnowledgePublic DomainFree API

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

No direct charges

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
N/A
ChargeCategory
N/A
InvoiceIssuerName
N/A
ProviderName
Wikimedia Foundation
PublisherName
Wikimedia Foundation
ServiceCategory
Open Data
ServiceName
Wikisource
ServiceSubcategory
Public Domain Text Library

Meters

api_read_requests
Unit: request
api_write_requests
Unit: request
bulk_dump_downloads
Unit: download
bandwidth_egress_gb
Unit: GB

Sources