Some quick thoughts from me.

I, too, find the Facebook/Medium discussion reroute unfortunate (I'm not
even on Facebook), though it might help attract some more newcomers. I'm
sure we can find a suitable place to discuss this on-wiki, and there should
be an appropriate link for that.

As for the actual topic of the interview, I am glad to see an outside
opinion from someone who has experience with large, community-driven media
repositories. I might not agree with all the sentiments, and structured
data and out Next Big Thing did not exactly feature prominently, but I find
it refreshing to leave the echo chamber once in a while.

Cheers,
Magnus

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:23 PM Walter Siegmund via Commons-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Why should we Commons contributors participate in a discussion on
> Facebook, a corporation that has generated great wealth for its founder by
> distributing advertising that includes democracy-destroying and hate-filled
> propaganda? It is antithetical to the principles of most of our
> participants. I’m profoundly disappointed that a discussion on Facebook
> would be promoted by the office of GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> Best wishes,
> Walter
>
> > On Oct 31, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Gnangarra via Commons-l <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I too dislike the idea of having to pay to contribute to a discussion
> about Wikimedia Commons.  I also see some irony in advice from a platform
> that being generous can be described as having lost its way many years ago,
> yes we can learn from the mistakes of others. As others have said
> collectively we are capable of amazing things, we are doing something
> special as we look forward we mustn't lose sight what our purpose is and
> our goals are.
> >
> > Dont forget https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
> will have impact so much of what is spoken about wont be relevant
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 21:15, Iván Hernández Cazorla via Commons-l <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 31/10/18 13:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) via Commons-l wrote:
> > > Sandra Fauconnier via Commons-l, 31/10/2018 10:58:
> > >> Medium, where you can leave comments:
> > >
> > > It's truly terrible if we're now outsourcing comments to an external
> > > proprietary platform.
> >
> > Totally agree with both of you, Federico and Fae.
> >
> > I don't understand the outsourcing of comments nor the promotion from
> > the Wikimedia Foundation of services as Facebook.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Iván
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