Uhm. If you don't think there's any distinction in nature or terminology
between
'The contents of a form field intentionally filled out and submitted by a
user' and....every other kind of data, there's a disconnect here somewhere.
On Thursday, 4 September 2014, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:20 AM, aaron shaw <aaronshaw(a)northwestern.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aaronshaw@northwestern.edu');>>
wrote:
Sorry Ed, I don't think we all know that. In fact, I'm unaware of any way
in which Wikimedia makes money based on data collected from its users. To
my knowledge, the Foundation is supported almost entirely through private
donations[1].
Ok, try this on for size:
An edit to a Wikipedia article is data collected from its users. WMF
receives millions of dollars of donations a year because of this data, and
its accessibility.
//Ed
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