Hoi,
No.. you are right.. wrong audience
Sorry,
Gerard
On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 14:31, Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
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