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Partnerships should be mutual, transparent, well conceived and always in the
best interest of Wikipedia.

*Any commercial interest in the content created will only lead to compromise
of some sort. *

For example, if a book publisher wants to write a series of articles in
Wikipedia and then publish it, this might seem like a good will gesture of
donating articles to Wikipedia. But, the articles may not adhere to
Wikipedia's MOS and may be written in a style for their target audience.

Commercial entities can best support Wikimedia by "donating" resources like
tools, facilities and sponsorships to conduct events.

Ravi






On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:

> Thanks for sending this, Ravi. I am wondering how much this has to do
> with them also shutting down their translation and transliteration
> APIs as recently announced and how much this has to do with them
> having achieved what they set out to do - not as far as Wikipedia is
> concerned but their internal metrics for the project.
>
> A larger question I am trying to parse - what have we learned from it
> in terms of partnering with organizations that also have commercial
> goals?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
>

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Hi Gautam,<br><br>I am not sure if this is related with them closing down o=
ther Indic related projects. <br><br>Two guesses:<br><br>1. They might have=
 started these projects with a goal of collecting some data and they might =
have met it. <br>
<br>2. They might have found the Indic market less profitable at the moment=
 and might have chosen to shut down some resources. <br><br>Google&#39;s pr=
oject can hardly be called a partnership. It started the program on its own=
 and the communities had only two choices: Block them or guide them how to =
do it better. <br>
<br>Tamil Wikipedia chose to work with them in the hope of improving this p=
roject and tried to provide a pilot model for other Wikipedias. <br><br>Fro=
m my experience in this project, my personal opinion is that:<br><br>Partne=
rships should be mutual, transparent, well conceived and always in the best=
 interest of Wikipedia. <br>
<br><b>Any commercial interest in the content created will only lead to com=
promise of some sort. </b><br><br>For example, if a book publisher wants to=
 write a series of articles in Wikipedia and then publish it, this might se=
em like a good will gesture of donating articles to Wikipedia. But, the art=
icles may not adhere to Wikipedia&#39;s MOS and may be written in a style f=
or their target audience. <br>
<br>Commercial entities can best support Wikimedia by &quot;donating&quot; =
resources like tools, facilities and sponsorships to conduct events.<br><br=
>Ravi<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, =
2011 at 12:14 AM, Gautam John <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:gauta=
m at prathambooks.org">gautam at prathambooks.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Thanks for sending this, Ravi. I am wonderi=
ng how much this has to do<br>
with them also shutting down their translation and transliteration<br>
APIs as recently announced and how much this has to do with them<br>
having achieved what they set out to do - not as far as Wikipedia is<br>
concerned but their internal metrics for the project.<br>
<br>
A larger question I am trying to parse - what have we learned from it<br>
in terms of partnering with organizations that also have commercial<br>
goals?<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Gautam<br></blockquote><br></div><br>

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