On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:09 PM MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Pete Forsyth wrote:
Lisa presented some alternative strategies for
revenue needs for the
Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to
the services and APIs, 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.
This reminds me of the Wikimedia update feed service:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_update_feed_service>. The
Wikimedia Foundation basically allowed large search engines to access a
private faster and dedicated stream of recent changes to Wikimedia wikis
for a fee. While Google isn't mentioned on the Meta-Wiki page, I have a
vague memory that they were (and maybe still are) involved.
I believe it was Yahoo. They were allowing us to use some of their servers
in Asia back in the day, and I believe they also paid for large-scale
access. There was even a special dump with the article start sections for
them.
Somewhat related, there is also
search.wikimedia.org:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search.wikimedia.org>. This service
was designed to give Apple a fast and dedicated stream for title prefix
searches. Apple's built-in Dictionary application has been the primary
consumer of this feed, though I believe it's open to anyone.
MZMcBride
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