Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] For Wikipedia's 15th Birthday, what does Wikipedia mean to the world?

Oh, this video is amazing! It could make a great introduction as background information for an educational talk, and so much more :) Lodewijk On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Claudia Garad wrote: > Thanks for the resources Zack! > > Our project partner the simpleshow foundation made a freely l

[Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I'm interested to hear some perspectives on the following line of thinking: Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to the services and APIs, expanding major donor and foundation fundraising, providin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

"imagine a world where every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge" - forget that we can make a quid by charging now as we are the best and only remaining encyclopedia - suppose its time stop imagining anything beyond a dollar sign, - WMF could start by charging Google f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

On 16 January 2016 at 19:23, Pete Forsyth wrote: > I'm interested to hear some perspectives on the following line of thinking: > > Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the > Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to the > services and APIs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Do you think? I'm genuinely not sure. I think that the difference in scale from what Google does with our data and the general developer/researcher is pretty big. One million times big. I actually think that "over-the-top" players like Google do actually exploit free licensed materials like Wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

> Looking for additional revenue sources isn't a bad idea, but charging for > premium access is likely to annoy the community to a degree that will make > the great Visual Editor revolt look like some quiet and polite murmuring. That's definitely a conversation worth having, as it helps us underst

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

On 16 January 2016 at 22:09, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > Do we want to charge for knowledge? Of course not. But do we want to be > able to introduce cool new tools for everyone faster, because e.g. Google > is willing to pay for their development if they can use it for some time > earlier as "pre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

Great! On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) < nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd> wrote: > Great! Thanks for sharing Anna! > > > -Hasive > WMBD > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Samir Elsharbaty < > selsharb...@wikimedia.org > > wrote: > > > Thanks for sharing, Anna! > > > > It

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > I'm interested to hear some perspectives on the following line of thinking: > > Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the > Foundation, ... > or limiting the Wikimedia Foundation's growth. What a good idea. Richard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

I'll propose to project it to Open Labs, our hackerspace in Tirana. Congrats! *---* *Redon Skikuli* *e-mail: **re...@skikuli.com * *web: **www.skikuli.com * On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) < nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd> wrote: > Great! Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

Fantastic work, Anna! Do you have the subtitles (*.srt) file so we can start translating the subtitles? I'd like to translate in into Ukrainian and share here) Best, Yury Bulka from Wikimedia Ukraine Anna Torres writes: > Dear all, > > Wikimedia Argentina has been working the last 6 months on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freemiumly share in the sum of all knowledge." XD Il 16/01/2016 10:23, Pete Forsyth ha scritto: I'm interested to hear some perspectives on the following line of thinking: Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

Hi, Great work, Anna. Best wishes, Bodhisattwa from Bengali Wikipedia community On 16 Jan 2016 18:34, "Yury Bulka" wrote: > Fantastic work, Anna! > > Do you have the subtitles (*.srt) file so we can start translating the > subtitles? I'd like to translate in into Ukrainian and share here) > > B

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] For Wikipedia's 15th Birthday, what does Wikipedia mean to the world?

Hi, The video was awesome. :-) Regards, Bodhisattwa On 16 Jan 2016 13:47, "Lodewijk" wrote: > Oh, this video is amazing! It could make a great introduction as background > information for an educational talk, and so much more :) > > Lodewijk > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Claudia Garad <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

If we are concerned about Google taking unfair advantage of Wikipedia, one simple solution is to allow content donations with a non-commercial restriction. Right now, the concept of "free" include commercial use. An added bonus to this is that we would get a lot more institutional donations of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Interesting. It would make sense in general, but if we de-contextualize Wikimedia. The potential of Wikimedia projects are connected with the question that they are free. Having a premium access means two kind of risks: a) losing the community, and Wikipedia will become quickly a "big outdat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

The video is fantastic, Anna. Great job! On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Great work, Anna. > > Best wishes, > Bodhisattwa > from Bengali Wikipedia community > On 16 Jan 2016 18:34, "Yury Bulka" > wrote: > > > Fantastic work, Ann

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

If an API license raised a meaningful amount of money then whoever bought it would have some influence over the organisation, and if it didn't raise a meaningful amount of money I doubt it would be worth doing. There are other options that should be less contentious: Emailing donors, explaining

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Thanks for raising this Pete. I am interested in both the ethics and practicalities of this change, as a long established unpaid volunteer API user. Sorry to raise the obvious, but while Geshuri is on the board, someone found in court to have acted *illegally* on behalf of Google resulting in dama

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

What do they cost the foundation for their access? If they put up the costs significantly in way of bandwidth or servers or anything like that, it would be reasonable for them to support the extra costs. Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I wonder how many ways there are to say "No"? Well, let's start with "no". (My actual thoughts on this idea would probably get me put on moderation, so I'll refrain.) I helped build this project to be freely available to all reusers for all purposes. The WMF's job should be to provide as many ways

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Pete Forsyth wrote: >Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the >Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to >the services and APIs, expanding major donor and foundation fundraising, >providing specific services for a fee, or limiting the Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I agree with Todd on most, possibly all points, but if Google want to finance faster access for their search engine, in way of hardware, software or development, with no strings attached, as long as it puts no-one at a disadvantage at the time or in future, then why not? Peter -Original Mes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

James Alexander wrote: >I think everyone knows there are a lot of legitimate concerns to be >concerned about and certainly Arnnon's actions at Google are legitimate >for question however this whole "google is controlling the board/wmf" >line of thought is turning into a huge and enormous conspiracy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:09 PM MZMcBride wrote: > Pete Forsyth wrote: > >Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the > >Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to > >the services and APIs, expanding major donor and foundation fundraising, > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advisory Board and Board-appointed seats (was: Beyond the Board)

Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > I've been also thinking about revitalizing our Advisory Board - the way I > would like to see it would be dividing it into (a) community (b) tech and > (c) academic subgroups, available for immediate consulting and feedback. As Adam Wight recently pointed out on wikimed

[Wikimedia-l] Transparency of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Pine W wrote: >2. While I understand that some Board conversations are best held in >private, for example conversations involving attorney-client privilege, I >continue to believe that there is a misalignment between the democratic >and open-source values of the Wikimedia movement and the limited >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

Hoi, To be perfectly honest, the biggest gift of Google is to recognise Wikipedia as significant. I like to think that it is because of the algorithms they use and even when it is not it is what makes Wikipedia significant. When they value us not only through their algorithms and give us money beca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Hoi, If anything the Wikimedia Foundation is about providing free access and provide it to everyone who needs it on an equal basis. When this changes, when people pay for superior service that is not available for everyone I will really hate it and the people who had us deviate so much from where w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

MZMcBride writes: > A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google Apps > platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org domain is > now hosted by Google. Are you sure? It doesn't look like wikimedia.org's MX point to google's servers: https://starttls.in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

To share some context of the discussion the board had around this -- I don't think the minutes give enough detail. APIs -- as we are freely and rapidly creating them today are important, but are not quite at the core of the issue we are facing. Today Wikimedia is the largest internet channel for o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-16 19:21 GMT+01:00 Lila Tretikov : > To share some context of the discussion the board had around this -- I > don't think the minutes give enough detail. APIs -- as we are freely and > rapidly creating them today are important, but are not quite at the core of > the issue we are facing. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-16 20:40 GMT+01:00 Pierre-Selim : > Isn't that the point of using free licence (not NC, nor ND) ? I guess we do > so > to allow people/company/the world to reuse our content the way they want. > > If we have problem attracting people to our plateform, then the problem is > not > about our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

Yury Bulka wrote: >MZMcBride writes: >> A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google >>Apps platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org >>domain is now hosted by Google. >Are you sure? It doesn't look like wikimedia.org's MX point to google's >servers:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

Yury Bulka wrote: >> A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google Apps >> platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org domain is >> now hosted by Google. > Are you sure? It doesn't look like wikimedia.org's MX point to google's > servers: > https://st

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I think if anyone were to pay, they should all pay at the same rate, according to their usage. Moreover, those whose usage is minimal should not pay at all. You might have a threshold – say, if it's $X or less, no need to pay a dime. So the Indian or African start-up would have access for free, w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advisory Board and Board-appointed seats (was: Beyond the Board)

Having "Jimmy's technolibertarian ubercapitalist friends" (to use Milos' inimitable diction) as board *advisors* rather than voting board members and *decision-makers* directing the movement's course strikes me as a very worthwhile idea. Andreas ___ Wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

So, in one of the last 15th birthday celebrations around the world, we just watched a lightning talk from New York City, where a young hacker[1] was demonstrating her Wiki-sonnets engine: http://wikison.net/ Here's the one it made me given the starting article [[Homer]]: *Homer* Before the Ap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

2016-01-16 23:36 GMT+01:00 Asaf Bartov : > So, in one of the last 15th birthday celebrations around the world, we just > watched a lightning talk from New York City, where a young hacker[1] was > demonstrating her Wiki-sonnets engine: > > http://wikison.net/ > I was very active in my student natio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I agree, we shouldn't fee anything but a "reimburse" for the massive usage of our hardware/networking resources would be ok. Using over the tops' facilities would be great but it would also bring to privacy concerns. Finally if an over the top wants some further feature it can fund scholarsh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

On 16 January 2016 at 10:08, Yury Bulka wrote: > MZMcBride writes: > > A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google > Apps > > platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org domain > is > > now hosted by Google. > Are you sure? It doesn't look like wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Thank you for sharing this but, above all, to focus on digging real data. IMHO we shouldn't forget our mission, so licenses must be as free as possible. Turning into something "more closed" would definitely deplete one of the most valuable source (the open source world) of volunteering we have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

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 deletion still. > Hilarious. :) Also, Richard Knipel has helpfully informed me that the hacker's name is Cassie Tarakajian. https://github.com/catarak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

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 might prefer to change their algorithm, or red

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

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 it'd pass? Absent that, please start listening to the volunteers. Listening, as in doing what they'd like you to do. Otherwise, I'll be putting forth th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

> On 16 Jan 2016, at 18:39, Alex Monk wrote: > > On 16 January 2016 at 10:08, Yury Bulka > wrote: > >> MZMcBride writes: >>> A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google >> Apps >>> platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org domain >> is >>> now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

What a delight! A truly glorious commemoration. Thanks to Cassie T and to Asaf for sharing this with us, transmuting prose to timeless poetry. On Jan 16, 2016 18:32, "Asaf Bartov" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Johan Jönsson > wrote: > > > > > > > http://wikison.net/ > > > > The statu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I find it rather surprising, but I very much find myself in agreement with most what Andreas Kolbe said on this thread. 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:

[Wikimedia-l] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore

Hello Everyone, I have proposed a new Wikimedia project on Meta. I hope you guys can take a look and give your views. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilore Regards Satdeep Gill ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Thank yous and video recordings for the Wikipedia 15 joint celebrations (SF, NYC, and Seattle)

Forwarding video links (: -- Forwarded message -- From: Pine W Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:43 PM Subject: Thank yous and video recordings for the Wikipedia 15 joint celebrations (SF, NYC, and Seattle) To: Video links to Youtube (Commons uploads will happen in the near future,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

In cases of excessive resource usage we have several options. Contact the source, throttle them, or flat out disable access depending on what each case calls for. I have seen the dev team to this liberally in the past when needed. If any one person or group is exploiting us by using unproportionat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

What a delight! For those who love iterations, the sonneto of Wikipedia itself: *Wikipedia* In many cases this is very far are written in a form that deviates from an assumption that conceptions are been sold for use in the United States. A "flagged revisions" system can prevent is: If thi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Hi! I have been recently investigating business models for community based and collaborative online services. You do not have to reinvent the wheel (or discussions), there is some experience in this field from other projects. So, to move the discussion away from just opinions and feelings... I wo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

So how to deal with legitimate uses that require many requests? Is it better to not serve them at all? On Jan 16, 2016 19:50, "John" wrote: > In cases of excessive resource usage we have several options. Contact the > source, throttle them, or flat out disable access depending on what each > cas

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

If we are running dedicated services for free on behalf of a major search engine as part of our symbiotic relationship with them, then kudos to Lila for putting it on the trustees agenda and getting some discussion in the movement. I can understand how we get into a situation where a known major

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Offlist Re: In Support of Community

You called? :) On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > Ok, spot the idiot who can't send an offlist email offlist. > On 13 Jan 2016 09:38, "Chris Keating" wrote: > > > That's what the Googleplex wants you to think! > > On 13 Jan 2016 00:56, "Asaf Bartov" wrote: > > > > > (perha