I concur that the WMF should at the very least set up an account
mirroring what's sent to the Twitter account. Or perhaps some
well-known volunteer could set one up. (That's not me volunteering!)
Dip a toe in.
- d.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 at 01:15, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 2:30 PM Erik Moeller wrote:
> These are just the nonprofits
> that Wikidata knows about:
>
> https://w.wiki/6Am4
Apologies, that was the wrong URL. Here is the correct one for that
query: https://w.wiki/69V8
And yeah, completely agree re: patience - hope everyone has a
I strongly support Erik’s and other people’s call for the Wikimedia Foundation
to join Mastodon. Not only for the obvious ethical reasons, but also simply for
the fact that platforms like Mastodon can only grow long-term when there’s
enough activity and good content that makes engagement
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 7:46 AM SCP 2000 wrote:
> FYI, I asked WMF Communication Team about any plans of using Mastodon in
> future.
>
> Here is their response [1] "The Digital Communications team has been
> researching
> Mastodon and considering our potential involvement with the platform in
One concern I have is that all “oldbies” like myself have all seen bots
basically decay after whomever is maintaining goes inactive. Of course, this
could be mostly rectified by having the AI be open source. This leaves the
“people” aspect; that is, not only does the AI need to be maintained,
Anne,
Interestingly enough what these large companies have to spend a ton of money on
is creating and moderating content. In other words people. Passionate
volunteers in large numbers is what the movement has in abundance. Imagine the
power of combining the talents and passion of our community
Given what we already know about AI-like projects (think Siri, Alexis,
etc), they're the result of work done by organizations utilizing resources
hundreds of times greater than the resources within the entire Wikimedia
movement, and they'renot all that good if we're being honest. They're
entirely
