[Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

[Kul Takanao Wadhwa]

Hey Steven,

> On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found
> another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling
> our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror
> that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads around our
> work feels like a bum deal for Wikimedia.

That's a good point and we did give this a lot of thought. Facebook 
wanted to do this anyway (and they could take the content as long as 
they follow the license(s)) but we thought that, in the end, it would be 
better if we work with them on this to influence them to do it in a 
positive. Plus, we let them know that we will be forwarding on our 
community's feedback so this give us a better way to deal with them. 
This will be a learning experience. We hope that things move in a 
positive direction on this and Facebook has been very cooperative.