Did you mean to send this to the langcom list? It doesn't seem very langcom-specific....
fre. 24. sep. 2021, 14:08 skrev Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > Hoi, > There are some people who repeatedly argue that we raise way too much > money. Given a set of assumptions an argument can be constructed to make > this point. In my opinion there is little merit to the argument. We do need > money to operate the Wikimedia projects and a positive outcome per year > enables us to do more.the next year. I have some ideas about raising money > and raising expectations. > > - We want to raise less money in the Anglo-Saxon world. When people > donate money everywhere they too will gain a sense of ownership. This sense > of ownership is to be distributed more equally around the globe > - With our projects owned more equitably around the globe, the notion > that "any child of nine year old can find pictures in Commons" is > reasonable and self-evident; the world pays for results that > are globally relevant .. > - We need a delivery manager, his/her task is to research and define > what it is our projects deliver to their public. The objective is to > increase both quantity and quality of what is delivered by a project and > discuss with project communities what it is that can be done to improve the > service to its public. Commons does provide material to Wikipedia, that is > good but not enough. > > Both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Internet Archive have projects to > document all scientific papers / output. The Internet Archive provides an > important service to the Wikimedia Foundation and we can integrate the two > projects, reduce costs and have the WMF pay the IA for its services. Closer > ties with the Internet Archive provide many other benefits. One of these > benefits is that we can bring the Wikipedia references into a modern age. > > For Wikidata there is a technical limit in what we can achieve on the > current platform. Because of Wikidata the WMF is a very big fish in the > data pond. We need to (imho) pick up the challenge and develop our own > software. This will cost significantly and it demonstrates that we accept > that Free software is not Free as in Beer. With the IA as a partner, we may > find a partner in this endeavour. > > The notion that we raise too much money, the notion that there is no > urgency is a fallacy. It is all too easy to identify how our service is > lacking and where we can improve our service. The arguments why the WMF > raises too much money assumes that there is only one project, their project > and they consider that its status quo suffices. The question is, sufficient > for who,for what and for how long. > Thanks, > GerardM > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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