victoria, discussions to monetize the wikipedia content in one or the other way are as old as wikipedia. some people say "why should i continue editing and supporting wikipedia in my free time, or donate money, attracted by the vision to make it available to all, without condition, when WMF starts selling parts of it?" while the others feel that wikipedia relying on donations only keeps them at a shoestring budget, which meanwhile grew to 100 million USD a year. up to now the discussion always ended with a similar result: wikipedia would loose more than it would gain, and the initiative stopped. why this time it would be different? even more so as this API idea was already there when sue gardner joined 10 or more years ago. but maybe it becomes a good idea over time if it is brought up often enough and the environment changes. in 20 years or so, when the wikipedia content is auto-generated, auto-translated and WMF has no employees any more and no need of voluntary work this for sure would work.
rupert On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:19 PM Victoria Coleman < vstavridoucole...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 Kunal! The WMF Cloud Services team can totally provide the needed > support. The Foundation would have to invest them to build up the team > which is over stretched but that should easily pay for itself as revenue > starts flowing in from the paid API. > > Victoria > > > On Jul 9, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Kunal Mehta <lego...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On 2020-07-09 13:15, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > >> Which cloud provider would you recommend? > > > > Wikimedia Cloud Services, which incidentally, has the fastest network > > connection to Wikimedia sites by virtue of it being hosted *inside* the > > cluster. > > > > -- Legoktm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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>
