I haven't been directly involved in a while, but we were certainly not paying Yandex last time I looked at the arrangement. Appropriate legal steps were also taken to protect the licensing of the content, and appropriate technical steps to protect PII of editors, among other things.
FWIW- Luis On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:12 PM, C. Scott Ananian <canan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > According to my listening of that Metrics meeting, it does seem like > WMF is going to have to pay Yandex for using its service. But as you > say, that doesn't infect the actual translation text, which goes into > wikipedia and extends the free content available for everyone. > --scott > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 07/02/2015 12:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > >>> On 07/01/2015 06:50 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > >>>> Il 02/07/2015 03:28, Legoktm ha scritto: > >>>>> I noticed: "Yandex coming up soon!" under ContentTranslation. Are > there > >>>>> more details about what this means? > >>>> > >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89844 I think > >>> > >>> Thanks for the pointer. After some more digging, I found > >>> < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Content_translation/Specification/Yandex_backend > >. > >>> > >>> So it appears that ContentTranslation will be contacting a third-party, > >>> closed source service? Are users going to be informed that this is the > >>> case? What data is being sent? > >>> > >> > >> It appears[1] this has quietly gone ahead without any response here, > >> which is disappointing. > >> > >> [1] > >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Content_translation/Documentation/FAQ&diff=1935992&oldid=1780766 > > > > As the user is isolated from the communication with Yandex , I don't > > see it as a huge problem. Using Qualtrics seems to be a much more > > serious problem, and nobody seems to care about that. > > > > Yandex is sort of similar to a "MP4 upload only" support, only without > > the patent concerns. Relying on it comes at the risk that the service > > stops, but the free content created is not infected. More likely, > > Yandex will start asking WMF for money, and WMF decides to pay because > > it is 'easier' than terminating using the service. > > > > Anyway, I've added it to > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_source > > > > -- > > John Vandenberg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > (http://cscott.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
