[Foundation-l] Social networking (was: Analysis of lists statistics: community in decline)

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:54 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The APIs are already open; arnt they?
> >
> > If someone built a beta of a cool app that Wikipedians would use often
> > as part of their reading/contributing activities, I doubt WMF would
> > actively prevent it from pulling down the content it needs.
> >
> > Facebook apps are already possible.
>
> So, we are making business to Facebook. The point is to keep users at
> our site, not at some other site.
>

I thought the point was "to empower and engage people around the world to
collect and develop educational content under a free
license<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content>or in the public
domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally"