[Foundation-l] Social networking (was: Analysis of lists statistics: community in decline)

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So, we are making business to Facebook. The point is to keep users at
> >> our site, not at some other site.
> >
> > I thought the point was "to empower and engage people around the world to
> > collect and develop educational content under a free
> > license<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content>or in the public
> > domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally"
>
> I don't see the connection between those two issues.


I don't either.


> You quoted WMF's
> (and our) general goal, I was talking about how to work on it. Besides
> all other things, one of the methods is to keep users at our sites
> instead of building tools for commercial (and close source) platforms.


Well, I disagree.  I don't see how keeping users "at our sites" as long as
possible is a method to meet that mission.  I don't see how having users do
their social networking at wikiwhatever.org helps people develop educational
content under a free license.  Getting users to come to "our sites" in the
first place can be helpful, and creating plugins for sites like Facebook
would do that.