----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org
On 19/04/11 15:32, Raul Kern wrote:
So it's better to find other hosting provider for chapters web site?
A lot of chapters have their own hosting. Part of the reason is so that they can set their own website policies without any interference from the Foundation. It's a reasonable solution.
For example, Wikimedia Israel has a Facebook "like" button, and Wikimedia Russia, Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Portugal have Google Analytics, all without JRA quitting.
<bows>
The issue is still real, though, Tim, even if you don't minimize it to a snark at me. No one's going to cry if I stop editing... but I am not by any means the only person unhappy with the behaviour of Facebook; hell, Aaron Sorkin got an Oscar for dramatizing why you *should* be concerned about it.
And they're a very large private corporation, resorting to financial subterfuge to *continue* to stay private; I see no reason WMF should commingle its destiny with theirs.
Cheers, -- jra