Why would we want to? How would it further the aims of the movement? How much would it
cost? Who would run it?
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leinonen
Teemu
Sent: 09 April 2018 09:46
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?
Hi,
I have been looking for social networking service that would be fair: not abusing personal
data, funded by community, respecting privacy, accepting anonymity, free/libre/ open
source etc. Haven’t found many. The Diaspora* Project[1] is not moving forward very fast
and the Mastodon[2] is more a microblogging service rather than a social network service.
Would it make sense for Wikimedia movement to build its own social network service?
In the "2017 Movement strategy” we state: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the
essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge”. If we consider discussions
and information shared on social network services to be “knowledge”, I think we should
have a role in here too.
We have 33 million registered users and fulfil all the requirements of being a “fair
service”. A minimum list of features to make Wikimedia Social would be:
(1) Status updates
(2) Comments
(3) Likes
(4)Groups
maybe:
(5) Events
I am pretty sure that by integrating this to other Wikimedia services (Commons etc.) we
could achieve something awesome.
- Teemu
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
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