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Wikipedia Annual Support

Most of the market sells page creation and disappears. The page then lives alone on a platform where anyone can edit it, tag it or nominate it for deletion — and the first the owner hears of it is a journalist asking about the banner. Annual support is the opposite model: a year of contracted care behind the page, with named response duties, scheduled updates and deletion defence in every tier.

This is the structural differentiator of the whole WikiBusines catalog: creation decides whether a page exists; support decides whether it is still accurate, untagged and alive in year three.

Why pages need care after day 90

Every WikiBusines creation project includes 90 days of post-publication monitoring. After day 90, the page transfers fully to the client's responsibility unless a support plan is in place — and that is when the risk window opens. A Wikipedia article is a living document: editors rewrite it, bots tag it, sources go dead, competitors' PR cycles wash through it, and vandalism arrives on no schedule. None of this notifies the subject.

The failure mode is always the same: a small unanswered change compounds — an unsourced negative edit stays, a maintenance tag attracts scrutiny, a deletion nomination finds nobody at home. Support exists to make sure something answers within a contracted window instead of never.

Four plans, one structure

  • Annual — €420/year. For stable, low-attention pages: up to 4 content updates per year, neutral wording and routine issue guidance, periodic baseline compliance check. No continuous monitoring.
  • Managed Protection — €750/year. The default for most active brands: monitoring 2–3 times per week, proactive handling of unwanted edits and warning tags, up to 8 editorial updates per year, routine talk-page discussion support.
  • Premium — €1,200/year. When reaction speed matters: near real-time monitoring and alerts, instant notifications on changes, rapid response to vandalism and risky edits, active handling of escalations. Includes the Wikimonitoring toolkit.
  • Enterprise Governance — €3,500/year. For legal / PR / compliance environments: priority monitoring, handling of sensitive edits, disputes and deletion risk, quarterly executive summary and activity log, defined response expectations (SLA-driven). Includes Wikimonitoring.

Deletion defence is included in every tier. Current terms: wikibusines.net/wikipedia-page-annual-support.

What the work actually consists of

  • Scheduled editorial updates — new milestones, leadership changes, corrected figures, proposed through COI edit requests like any compliant edit.
  • Vandalism and risky-edit response — reverting or challenging degradations within the plan's reaction window, through the proper channels.
  • Sourcing refresh — replacing dead links and weakening citations before they become deletion arguments; source rot is a slow killer of older articles.
  • Tag and dispute handling — answering maintenance tags and talk-page disputes with sources, so small flags do not escalate into AfD.
  • Deletion defence — if the article is nominated for removal, arguing significance and criteria compliance in the AfD discussion. In every tier.
  • Reporting — from periodic summaries up to quarterly executive reports with an activity log at Enterprise level.

Who actually needs this

Not every page. A stable article about a historical subject can live for years untouched. The profiles where support pays for itself:

  • Public companies and funded scale-ups — earnings cycles, M&A and governance news generate edit activity, and investor-facing accuracy has a price.
  • Executives and public figures — biographies of living persons attract both vandalism and agenda editing, and reputational damage compounds fast.
  • Brands under media attention — litigation, controversy or viral moments pull drive-by edits within hours.
  • Recovered pages — anything that survived a deletion carries a history that invites renewed scrutiny.
  • Multi-edition portfolios — 10 pages on the Annual plan run €4,200/year, a balanced mixed portfolio €6,300, premium coverage of key markets €8,200 with a 15% portfolio discount; bundle discounts apply from 10 pages.

Support vs. monitoring: service vs. tool

These are two different products that work best together. Wikimonitoring is a self-serve alert tool: it tells you, in real time, that something changed — from €79/year. Annual support is a managed service: someone contracted acts on what changed. The toolkit is bundled into the Premium and Enterprise Governance tiers, so alerts and response live in one loop. The practical rule: if you have an in-house team able to respond on-wiki, the tool may be enough; if you do not, alerts without response are just faster bad news.

Frequently asked

What does Wikipedia annual support include?

Depending on tier: 4 to 8 contracted editorial updates per year, monitoring from periodic checks up to near real-time alerts, vandalism and risky-edit response, sourcing refresh, tag and talk-page dispute handling, and reporting up to quarterly executive summaries. Deletion defence — arguing the page's case if it is nominated for removal — is included in every tier, from €420 to €3,500 per year.

Which support plan should I choose?

Annual (€420) fits stable, low-attention pages; Managed Protection (€750) is the default for most active brands; Premium (€1,200) is for pages where reaction speed matters or edits are frequent; Enterprise Governance (€3,500) is for legal, PR and compliance environments that need SLAs and executive reporting. Portfolio configurations with discounts start at 10 pages.

What happens to my page without a support plan?

After the 90-day post-publication window the page transfers fully to your responsibility: nobody notifies you of edits, tags or deletion nominations, and unanswered changes compound over time. Many pages survive unwatched; the ones that do not are typically active brands, living-person biographies and recovered pages, where a single unanswered nomination can undo the whole investment.

Is annual support the same as Wikimonitoring?

No: Wikimonitoring is a self-serve alert tool (from €79/year) that notifies you of changes in real time; annual support is a managed service (from €420/year) where contracted specialists act on those changes — updates, defence, escalations. The toolkit is bundled into the Premium and Enterprise Governance support tiers, so the two products form one loop of detection and response.

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