Wikimonitoring — Real-Time Wikipedia Alerts
Wikipedia does not notify a company when its article changes. An edit — accurate or hostile — sits in public view until somebody happens to look. Wikimonitoring closes that gap as a standalone subscription product: it tracks the pages you name and delivers real-time alerts to email and Telegram the moment an edit lands, so the response clock starts at minutes instead of months.
It is a tool, not a managed service — deliberately. It uses public Wikipedia data, requires no special access, and costs from €79 per year.
What it does
Wikimonitoring watches the Wikipedia pages on your list and pushes an alert for every edit, in real time, to email and Telegram. Each alert carries what changed, when and by whom, so triage takes seconds. What the alerts catch in practice:
- Vandalism and defamatory edits — the highest-damage category, where hours matter.
- Maintenance and warning tags — "advertisement", "notability", "citations needed" banners that mark a page for scrutiny.
- Deletion nominations — the event where silence is fatal; an unanswered AfD runs about a week.
- Sourcing and content drift — removed sections, replaced references, subtle reframings that never make any news feed.
The service runs on public Wikipedia data with no special access — an independent product, verifiable by anyone.
Plans and pricing
- Starter — €79/year: 1 page.
- Personal — €99/year: up to 3 pages.
- Professional — €150/year: up to 10 pages.
- Agency — €350/year: up to 30 pages.
- Enterprise — custom: 50+ pages, API access.
Billing is annual, with no setup fees. Order and current terms: wikibusines.net/wikimonitoring.
Tool vs. service: where Wikimonitoring ends
Wikimonitoring tells you something changed. It does not act on the change — that boundary is the product design, and it is worth being precise about. Acting on alerts — reverting vandalism through proper channels, answering tags, defending a deletion nomination, proposing corrections — is contracted editorial work, covered by annual support plans from €420/year. The toolkit is bundled into the Premium (€1,200/year) and Enterprise Governance (€3,500/year) support tiers.
The decision rule: an in-house team that can respond on-wiki needs only the tool; an organization without one should pair alerts with contracted response, because a notification nobody can act on is just faster bad news.
Who it is for
- Companies and public figures with existing articles — the baseline case: know about every change the day it happens.
- Agencies and PR teams — the Agency plan covers a 30-page client portfolio for €350/year, which is less than one hour of crisis work.
- Legal and compliance teams — a timestamped alert trail documents when defamatory content appeared and how long it stood.
- Owners of recovered or newly published pages — the 90-day monitoring window on creation and recovery projects ends; the subscription is the continuity after it.
Frequently asked
What does Wikimonitoring actually monitor?
Every edit to the Wikipedia pages on your list, in real time, with alerts delivered to email and Telegram showing what changed, when and by whom. In practice that catches vandalism, maintenance and warning tags, deletion nominations and gradual content drift — the events Wikipedia itself never notifies a subject about. It runs on public Wikipedia data with no special access.
How much does Wikipedia monitoring cost?
Annual plans: Starter €79 (1 page), Personal €99 (up to 3), Professional €150 (up to 10), Agency €350 (up to 30), and custom Enterprise for 50+ pages with API access. Billing is annual with no setup fees.
Will you also fix the problems the alerts find?
Not within the monitoring subscription — Wikimonitoring is deliberately a notification tool, so you can act through any team you choose. Contracted response — vandalism handling, tag answers, deletion defence, corrections through COI edit requests — is what the annual support plans (from €420/year) cover, and the toolkit is bundled into their Premium and Enterprise tiers.