Was discussed here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Iteration_1/Revenue_Streams/1
and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Iteration_1/Revenue_Streams/1 James On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:37 PM Yair Rand <yyairr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The strategy recommendations include the text: "Explore fees or > sustainability models for enterprise-scale commercial reusers, taking care > to avoid revenue dependencies or other undue external influence in product > design and development. / Develop appropriate safeguards to ensure > continued free, unrestricted access for non-commercial, research, and small > to moderate commercial use." Earlier versions elaborate somewhat, and there > were considerable reservations expressed about the idea during the process. > > It is quite concerning. > > -- Yair Rand > > בתאריך יום א׳, 14 ביוני 2020 ב-14:33 מאת Amir Sarabadani < > ladsgr...@gmail.com>: > > > 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> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ 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>
