On 20/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/20/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, What Anthony conveniently forgets is how we are going to pay for it all.
Pay for what? The stuff that's being done now? Donations are going to pay for it. For giving a datafeed to anyone in the world? The people receiving the datafeeds will pay for it. Imagine being able to get cheap or even free hosting on a multi-user server which has a live datafeed. Toolserver has given us a glimpse of the possibilites, now imagine if thousands of people had shell access.
We are not disagreeing with your ideas, I am sure they could work, but consider how much money starting up a project like that would cost. At the moment the servers for the current wikis aren't good enough - let alone thousands of other websites using who know how much storage and CPU.
Yes, we want to get as much expose our data in as many ways as possible. That is something we agree on. Fact is that the WMF is underfunded, it could do much more if it had money to act on its convictions.
Underfunded/overfunded is relative, but I do agree with you that the WMF could do much more if it had more money. But it's not fair to artificially restrict current projects in order to get that money.
Anthony
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