Wittylama added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107625#1546707, @Wittylama wrote:
> Just like the WMF doesn't negotiate image-donations for Commons, equally it shouldn't be negotiating metadata-donations for Wikidata. It should support "the community" to do that. And just to head-off the response that I've seen before from WMF about "the people who are best-placed to do an activity should be the ones doing it"... The WMF is ALWAYS going to be best-placed to work with an external org if we're starting from a position of no-previous-relationship compared to a random wikimedia volunteer or Chapter. If it wishes, the WMF could invest far more resources (time, money, people) in any project than any other entity in the wikiverse. One of the main reasons that GLAM became something that the Chapters took-up as their responsibility is because the WMF had specifically said "we're not doing that". If it had said "whoever is best placed to do it" then no volunteer or Chapter would have even bothered - under a "if the WMF is going to do it, why should I?" mentality. This is aside from the legal issue of the WMF stepping out of its vigorously-defended legal position as "we're just the host of a website, not a publisher". I'm sorry that this discussion has become quite divorced from the topic of this phabricator task! But basically, I don't understand what the "partnerships" team at WMF is scoped to do. Do they meet external orgs and build a good rapport, and then introduce them to the local community? Or do they actually do "content partnerships" with them. The former is how we operate in GLAM. the latter is a centralisation/takeover. I'm not talking about things that are definitely within the WMF's responsibility (e.g. caching servers, WP Zero...), I'm talking about "content" and "outreach". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107625 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Qgil, Wittylama Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, Susannaanas, Ricordisamoa, Daniel_Mietchen, Qgil, SVentura, Aklapper, Wittylama, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Gryllida, Rfarrand, jeremyb, Malyacko _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
