Google gives Wikimedia millions
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Google gives Wikimedia millions
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Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#2Fantastic news. Someone has to.
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#3Don't forget that Google once tried to kill Wikipedia with their own proprietary project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol). Really happy that was a failure.
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#4Fantastic news. Someone has to.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes // Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#5Don't forget that Google once tried to kill Wikipedia with their own proprietary project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol ). Really happy that was a failure.
And shuttered Freebase. Similarly, Apple used Openstreetmap to get their mapping effort off the ground and then didn't contribute back. I understand the profit motive for both of them, but it still rubs me the wrong way.
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#6Don't forget that Google once tried to kill Wikipedia with their own proprietary project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol ). Really happy that was a failure.
And shuttered Freebase. Similarly, Apple used Openstreetmap to get their mapping effort off the ground and then didn't contribute back. I understand the profit motive for both of them, but it still rubs me the wrong way.
Unfortunately, that’s the deal with open source - you have to expect that people will use your work in ways you may not like. License your stuff accordingly.
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#7I used to contribute heavily to Wikipedia in 2007-08 and intermittently since, however recently it has become an absolute nightmare to contribute.
Creating a missing article almost immediately is met with an admin nominating it for deletion for something like “notability”, the catch-all term for “I personally don’t care about this topic, and if it was important someone would have made it already.”
If you survive deletion then your article is often removed from the main Wikipedia site into “draft space” where it is hoped you’ll just go away, with a reason like “need more than the X-number of existing you have.”
If you still haven’t given up trying to contribute it is currently a 6 week wait to have your article reviewed to be moved back into Wikipedia-proper.
However! You’ll find any fair-use images you uploaded to support your article (say a movie poster), well those have been deleted since “draft space” articles are banned from containing them.
Those are just some of the trials I’ve gone through in the last two months trying to fill in some gaps on Wikipedia. It feels like they’ve added so many layers of bureaucracy over the last decade even longtime contributors are being forced away.
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#8Probably just so they can get rid of that 1/3 page notification to "give them money"
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#9I used to contribute heavily to Wikipedia in 2007-08 and intermittently since, however recently it has become an absolute nightmare to contribute. Creating a missing article almost immediately is met with an admin nominating it for deletion for something like “notability”, the catch-all term for “I personally don’t care about this topic, and if it was important someone would have made it already.” If you survive dele…
What did you try to contribute?
Last year I added an article about a musical ensemble. I followed the processes and it seemed to be fairly straightforward to get approved. (The ensemble had a bunch of articles written about them in the NYT).
Re: Google gives Wikimedia millions
#10Don't forget that Google once tried to kill Wikipedia with their own proprietary project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol ). Really happy that was a failure.
And shuttered Freebase. Similarly, Apple used Openstreetmap to get their mapping effort off the ground and then didn't contribute back. I understand the profit motive for both of them, but it still rubs me the wrong way.
Apple doesn't contribute back? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913408
> Apple employee spoke at a recent OSM conference. Yes, they use OSM data as well. In some countries more than others. Apple also has a fulltime staff working on OSM. https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues, https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/