On 9 Apr 2018, at 11.28, Peter Southwood
<peter.southwood@telkomsa.net<mailto:peter.southwood@telkomsa.net>> wrote:
Why would we want to?
Because we want to "become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free
knowledge”.
How would it further the aims of the movement?
Knowledge is dynamic. Today social media services are the most influential knowledge and
belief creation services online. When Wikipedia was started, websites use to hold this
position. With Wikimedia social media service, that would rely on the four last of the
five pillars[1], I think we could really further the aims of the movement.
How much would it cost?
Hard to say.
Who would run it?
Us.
- Teemu
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
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Teemu
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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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