I know that the dumps will be freely available to all. Beyond that, I hope one of the people in the project will reply to your concerns.
I do suggest that people comment or ask questions on the task itself, as I have no idea if any of the people on the brand new team involved with that project see these emails. Ariel On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:33 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Today I stumbled upon this public phabricator ticket [1] created by someone > from WMF starting with: > "My team is creating bi-weekly HTML Dumps for all of the wikis, except for > wikidata as part of the paid API project." > > I have so many questions: > - What is the "paid API" project? Are we planning to make money out of our > API? Now are we selling our dumps? > - If so, why is this not communicated before? Why are we kept in the dark? > - Does the board know and approve it? > - How is this going to align with our core values like openness and > transparency? > - The ticket implicitly says these are going to be stored on AWS ("S3 > bucket"). Is this thought through? Specially the ethical problems of > feeding Jeff Bezos' empire? (If you have seen this episode of Hasan > Minhaj's on ethical issues of using AWS [2]). Why can't we do/host this on > Wikimedia infrastructure? Has this been evaluated? > - Why is the community not consulted about this? > > Maybe I missed announcements, consultations or anything, forgive me for my > ignorance. Any pointers is enough. I also understand diversifying our > revenue is a good tool for rainy days but a consultation with the community > wouldn't be too bad. > > [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254275 > [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5maXvZ5fyQY > > Best > -- > Amir (he/him) > _______________________________________________ > 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>