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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 April 2014 20:50, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)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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