James
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:37 PM Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)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 <
ladsgroup@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)
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