Wikibusines
Maintenance

Protect and maintain your Wikipedia presence

Wikipedia pages change. Edits, vandalism, deletion nominations and community discussions can affect your article at any time. Maintenance plans provide structured monitoring and response so issues are caught and handled before they escalate.

Why monitoring matters

A published Wikipedia article isn't a finished article

After publication, the page lives inside a community process that runs continuously. Without monitoring you only find out about a problem when someone points it out — by which point it may already be hard to fix.

Vandalism & bad edits

Random edits, biased rewrites, or competitive sabotage can land at any time. Most are reverted by the community quickly — some aren't.

Deletion nominations

An editor can nominate the article for deletion at any point. The discussion window is short — usually 7 days — and missing it costs the page.

Stale facts

Funding rounds, leadership changes, product pivots — facts age. Without scheduled refresh, the article slowly drifts away from current truth.

Cross-edition drift

Multilingual rollouts diverge over time. An update on the English page won't propagate automatically to the German, French or Italian editions.

Plans

Three annual maintenance tiers

Pick the cadence that matches your article's exposure profile and your number of language editions. All plans run on a yearly billing cycle.

Basic

Single language

Baseline monitoring for a single Wikipedia edition with low-to-moderate exposure profile.

€1,200/ year
Quarterly check cadence
  • Vandalism alerts
  • Deletion-nomination response
  • Quarterly status report
Choose Basic
Recommended

Standard

3–7 editions

Right fit for the majority of multilingual rollouts. Adds active updates and source refresh on top of monitoring.

€1,800/ year
Monthly check cadence
  • Vandalism alerts
  • Deletion-nomination response
  • Minor factual updates
  • Source refresh as new coverage appears
  • Monthly status report
Choose Standard

Premium

By request · 7+ editions

For broad multilingual presence (Global 7+) and high-exposure profiles where issues need same-week handling.

€3,000/ year
Weekly check cadence · scope confirmed on intake
  • Everything in Standard
  • Cross-edition synchronization
  • Talk-page & discussion monitoring
  • Faster escalation path
  • Weekly status report
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Plan comparison

Feature-by-feature view across all three tiers.

Feature Basic Standard Premium
Annual price€1,200€1,800€3,000
Check cadenceQuarterlyMonthlyWeekly
Vandalism alerts
Deletion-nomination response
Minor factual updates
Source refresh
Cross-edition sync
Talk-page & discussion monitoring
Status reportQuarterlyMonthlyWeekly
Best forSingle language3–7 editions7+ editions, public brands
Important boundary

What maintenance plans cannot do

Maintenance plans provide monitoring, alerts and structured response. They do not change the fact that Wikipedia is community-run.

  • Cannot prevent edits. Anyone can edit a Wikipedia article — we monitor and respond, we don't block.
  • Cannot reverse community decisions. If a deletion discussion ends in "delete", the article is deleted; appeals go through Wikipedia's own deletion-review process.
  • Cannot prevent deletion nominations. Any editor can nominate at any time. We respond to nominations; we don't pre-empt them.
  • Cannot control editorial outcomes. We represent the article on its merits; final calls belong to the Wikipedia community.

If maintenance reveals a structural issue — for example, that the article's source pack has weakened over time — the honest answer may be that the article needs additional source-readiness work, not just monitoring.

Portfolio maintenance

Maintenance for agencies managing 5+ client pages

Agencies that have delivered Wikipedia pages for multiple clients can consolidate monitoring under a portfolio plan: shared reporting, priority alert handling and volume pricing on the per-page rate.

Consolidated reporting

One monthly portfolio report covering every client page, with red/amber/green status indicators and any actions taken.

Priority alert handling

Deletion nominations and high-impact incidents on partner-portfolio pages move to the front of the response queue.

Volume pricing

Per-page rates adjust by portfolio size. Available to active partner-tier agencies; pricing confirmed on intake.

Quick questions

Common questions about maintenance

Do I need a maintenance plan if my page is currently stable?

Stability is the period before the next event. Vandalism, deletion nominations and contested edits arrive without warning. Most pages don't need Premium; most pages do benefit from at least Basic.

What's the difference between Standard's "minor factual updates" and full editorial work?

Minor factual updates means refreshing already-supported facts when a new reliable source backs them — funding rounds, leadership changes, public milestones. It does not include adding new sections, restructuring the article or adding controversial content; that's a separate scope.

Can I upgrade or downgrade between plans during the year?

Upgrades take effect immediately and are pro-rated. Downgrades take effect at renewal; we don't refund mid-year on downgrades because the lower-tier work has already been delivered.

What happens if my article is deleted while under a maintenance plan?

We support the deletion-review process and document what triggered the nomination. If the underlying issue is fixable (for example, source-quality weakness), we recommend a path back via the Source Readiness Program.

Get started

Don't leave your Wikipedia presence unmonitored

Vandalism and deletion nominations don't wait. Start with the cadence that matches your exposure and adjust as your portfolio grows.