What do they cost the foundation for their access? If they put up the costs significantly
in way of bandwidth or servers or anything like that, it would be reasonable for them to
support the extra costs.
Peter
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Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2016 2:08 PM
To: Craig Franklin; Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs
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(a)halonetwork.net>
wrote:
On 16 January 2016 at 19:23, Pete Forsyth
<peteforsyth(a)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.
Cheers,
Craig
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