Will there be any way to encourage/allow people to edit the Wikipedia articles Facebook will be using?
On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads around our work feels like a bum deal for Wikimedia. Steven Walling On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwad...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on > launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is > going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of > the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and > informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're > calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will > be owned and managed by the Facebook community. > > Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free > knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, > and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. > Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also > be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. > Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more > ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at > other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future. > > Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English > Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems > likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook > members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add > more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the > web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the > article provided is not correct or has any display problems. > > It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see > how this goes. > > --Kul > > -- > Kul Takanao Wadhwa > Head of Business Development > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > k...@wikimedia.org > (415) 839-6885 ext. 603 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l