Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few
ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input
to the session"re-imagine Wikipedia movement" on Saturday at the Chapter
Meeitng
My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach,
thinking todays is too centralized.
But I do not see that you discuss the real radical decentralized model.
Skip WMF and the Board, and let each project take care of it self
including steering and financing. And as all info and software is free
this can be realty momentary, if wished, the only hindrance is the use
of the Logo
I have in my mind worked through this for my pet project: Wikipedia for
Swedish language And as far as I can see it would be doable. The cost
for running that project on completely separate servers would be very
moderate and the operations and board for WMSE is already a good way in
professionalization and would probably be able to handle, both the issue
of server operations and getting financing, a few million dollar/year
would probably be enough to run both chapter and servers
But would I as a committed contributer like this scenario. No (at least
not for now).
I am very happy that software is developed in one place to ensure it is
not getting out of date. And I am happy all servers are run by one
organization, bot to ensure quality but also good interconnection
between the servers/project. Wikidata (as commons) also shows there are
opportunistic in getting the project more integrated. Also I am very
impressed in the professional way WMF runs the funding activities, and
to be honest I know that even a rich country like Sweden is an net
receiver of fundings from the people in US (shame on us swedes). So I
have no interest of having the funding more decentralized (besides
utilizing some local sponsors better).
And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big,
POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to
the same base guidelines
So I question your urge and need to decentralize. For am as a
contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely
stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain
advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as
about today (for now)
Anders
Ting Chen skrev 2014-04-10 13:23:
Hello dear all,
now the second mail
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