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.
Framework Alignment
Charge Categories
FOCUS Columns
Meters
Sources
- https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_API_Usage_Guidelines
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
- https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
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Tools for finops
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