Do you think?
I'm genuinely not sure. I think that the difference in scale from what Google does with our data and the general developer/researcher is pretty big. One million times big. I actually think that "over-the-top" players like Google do actually exploit free licensed materials like Wikipedia... I mean, their Knowledge Vault is probably 100 bigger than Wikidata, but they are not supposed to share it. It's an internal asset. And it's not matter of CC0 or CCBYSA: they can keep it hidden.
There very, very few players who can exploit commons like this: do we need/have the right to address this? Is it a problem?
Aubrey
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
On 16 January 2016 at 19:23, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested to hear some perspectives on the following line of
thinking:
Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to
the
services and APIs,
Brace yourselves...
expanding major donor and foundation fundraising, providing specific services for a fee, or limiting the Wikimedia Foundation's growth. The Board emphasized the importance of keeping free access to the existing APIs and services, keeping operational growth in line with the organization's effectiveness, providing room for innovation in the Foundation's activities, and other potential fundraising
strategies.
The Board asked Lila to analyze and develop some of these potential strategies for further discussion at a Board meeting in 2016. Source: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2015-11-07
Looking for additional revenue sources isn't a bad idea, but charging for premium access is likely to annoy the community to a degree that will make the great Visual Editor revolt look like some quiet and polite murmuring.
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