Business · $399 per year
Monitor your page, your executives, and your competition
Five Wikipedia pages, watched continuously. Your company article, the people who represent it, and the competitors whose page often changes before their news does.
Your monitoring suite probably does not watch Wikipedia
Most comms teams assume it is covered. Media monitoring platforms are built to surface new content: an article published, a post made, a mention appearing. A Wikipedia edit is none of those. It is a change to a page that was already indexed, and it produces no new URL to find.
That is why a rewritten paragraph in your company article can sit there for days while a dashboard you pay five figures for reports nothing at all.
What companies watch with five pages
Your company
The article that feeds your knowledge panel, and the first thing an analyst, a journalist or a candidate reads.
Your executives
A chief executive with an article has a second reputation surface, and it is edited by people who do not work for you.
Your competition
An acquisition, a funding round or a lawsuit often lands in a competitor's article before it reaches the trade press.
A year of edits on one article
The quiet months are the argument for automating this. Nobody checks a page every day for a year.
Bytes added Bytes removed
| Month | Added | Removed | Net | Edits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep | 180 | 60 | +120 | 2 |
| Oct | 420 | 120 | +300 | 4 |
| Nov | 260 | 40 | +220 | 3 |
| Dec | 140 | 310 | −170 | 3 |
| Jan | 610 | 90 | +520 | 6 |
| Feb | 340 | 220 | +120 | 5 |
| Mar | 2,410 | 1,847 | +563 | 14 |
| Apr | 520 | 160 | +360 | 5 |
| May | 300 | 80 | +220 | 3 |
| Jun | 180 | 45 | +135 | 2 |
| Jul | 760 | 240 | +520 | 7 |
| Aug | 410 | 130 | +280 | 4 |
Against the alternatives
| Method | Delivers itself | Shows the change | Keeps working | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia Watchlist | Yes | No | No | Account, then two settings tabs |
| Page history RSS | No | Yes | No | A reader, plus a bridge to email |
| Google Alerts | Yes | No | No | Minimal |
| WikiMonitor (this product) | Yes | Yes | Yes | A page URL and an email address |
Every row is checkable. The notes and sources are on the full comparison.
What Business includes
$399per year
Five pages
- Five Wikipedia pages
- Everything in Personal
- Route alerts to more than one recipient
- Watch competitors as well as your own article
- Cancel any time
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Questions
We already pay for media monitoring. Does that not cover Wikipedia?
Check what your suite actually watches. Media monitoring is built to find new mentions across news and social. A Wikipedia edit is a change to a page the index already has, which is a different signal, and Wikipedia coverage is rarely something these suites claim in writing.
Which five pages should we watch?
The most common set is the company article, the founder or chief executive, one or two competitors, and whichever subsidiary or product has its own page. Competitors matter more than people expect, because an edit to their article often arrives before the news does.
Can alerts go to more than one person?
Yes. Business routes each page to whoever should see it, so legal does not have to read every citation cleanup and comms does not miss the one that matters.
Do you edit or respond on our behalf?
No, we detect and report, which keeps you clear of the conflict-of-interest problem that has caught out firms who do.