Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Legoktm
Hi, On 01/16/2016 06:11 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: > To give a bit more thoughts: I am not terribly worried about current > crawlers. But currently, and more in the future, I expect us to provide > more complex and this expensive APIs: a SPARQL endpoint, parsing APIs, etc. > These will be simply

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Selling infrastructure is not cheap. The organisations that buy this service need a service level agreement. They require this service to be always on. This means that we need at least three times the number of hardware. One for development and at least two for production. This will need some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell
I've been thinking about it and this is just bothering me too much. On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > Folks (WMF board, and those closely related), do we really have to hold a > vote of no confidence to get your attention? Do you have any doubt that >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Workshop for student of Fountain University

2016-01-17 Thread olatunde isaac
Dear all, On behalf of WUGN,  this is to congratulate all the Wikimedia communities for the success of the celebration of Wikipedia at 15. We held an event at Fountain University in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria as a way of commemorating the 15th years anniversary in the country. It was also a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Adam Wight
Charging Google for computing power is a Quixotic business model. For comparison, Google's own approach to this same problem, when the N$A wants to run so many ongoing searches that it would vaporize a little section of the Columbia River, is to lease a search appliance cluster to the agencies in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

2016-01-17 Thread Ricordisamoa
Just found https://github.com/starakaj/wikisonnet. Apparently it's a family-run project :-D Il 17/01/2016 00:31, Asaf Bartov ha scritto: On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote: http://wikison.net/ The status as a student union will be nominated for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Vituzzu
Il 17/01/2016 00:49, Risker ha scritto: Hmm. The majority of those crawlers are from search engines - the very search engines that keep us in the top 10 of their results (and often in the top 3), thus leading to the usage and donations that we need to survive. If they have to pay, then they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 January 2016 at 18:21, Lila Tretikov wrote: > I don't think the minutes give enough detail. Well, quite. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: