How would this proposed social media service avoid the problems of existing social media in that they are generally not 'knowledge dissemination services', but spreaders of opinion, disinformation, and often complete rubbish, with a random sprinkling of knowledge scattered among the garbage?
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leinonen Teemu Sent: Monday, April 9, 2018 9:25 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ? On 9 Apr 2018, at 11.28, Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net<mailto:peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>> wrote: Why would we want to? Because we want to "become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge”. How would it further the aims of the movement? Knowledge is dynamic. Today social media services are the most influential knowledge and belief creation services online. When Wikipedia was started, websites use to hold this position. With Wikimedia social media service, that would rely on the four last of the five pillars[1], I think we could really further the aims of the movement. How much would it cost? Hard to say. Who would run it? Us. - Teemu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars -----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leinonen Teemu Sent: 09 April 2018 09:46 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ? Hi, I have been looking for social networking service that would be fair: not abusing personal data, funded by community, respecting privacy, accepting anonymity, free/libre/ open source etc. Haven’t found many. The Diaspora* Project[1] is not moving forward very fast and the Mastodon[2] is more a microblogging service rather than a social network service. Would it make sense for Wikimedia movement to build its own social network service? In the "2017 Movement strategy” we state: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge”. If we consider discussions and information shared on social network services to be “knowledge”, I think we should have a role in here too. We have 33 million registered users and fulfil all the requirements of being a “fair service”. A minimum list of features to make Wikimedia Social would be: (1) Status updates (2) Comments (3) Likes (4)Groups maybe: (5) Events I am pretty sure that by integrating this to other Wikimedia services (Commons etc.) we could achieve something awesome. - Teemu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
