----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Starling"
<tstarling(a)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