Just mentioning it because David mentioned the Internet Archive. The IA is actively interested in collaborating with Wikimedia, and I think they have a lot to offer us - the reason nothing has come to fruition yet has been a combination of funding constraints and time constraints for everyone involved in the discussions. They have the technical infrastructure to eliminate deadlinks pretty much universally across our sites, and Andrew Lih and I have also been speaking with them about a very interesting video project that would get around a lot of the video limitations we currently have. So even if we don't currently use them heavily, I think there are a lot of opportunities there :)
Best, Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 April 2014 20:50, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing broader community opinions about the extent to which WMF should sponsor non-profits purely to support work that Wikimedia benefits from, even if it's not directed towards a specific goal established in a grant agreement.
Creative Commons, OpenStreetMap spring to mind. What are their budgets like? I expect ours dwarfs theirs. We should throw money at Freenode on a regular basis.
CC is a charity, I think OSM is a nonprofit but not actually a UK charity as yet (though WMUK achieving charity status makes that more achievable if they want to go for that).
Internet Archive and Archiveteam is not something we use as heavily as any of those, but they need it too.
Is there anyone else whose stuff we prevail upon that we really should be helping?
- d.
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