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I agree, I think it will be because they'll accept more money from commercial actors on the terms of whoever these actors are – Google currently does not seem to force any conditions on WP, as far as I can tell.

> If you want to do a good deed donate to the Internet Archive.

I agree with this as well but I consider both Wikimedia and the Internet Archive as extremely important.

Charitable causes always are at risk of "wasting" money. But the reason for that is that in a purely capitalistic sense the cause itself is not profitable.

Now, after a good dinner, reading the FAQ again, I'm starting to roughly feel like this might actually make sense, in another world, or maybe it might even make sense in reality when better fleshed-out?

And also I start to remember what this reminds me of (plenty of other entertaining references already here in the comments):

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect

  Two days later he started poking around. He started with a seemingly-innocuous file called “customers.json” and stared in confusion at its contents:

      {
        "File" : "Customers.json",
        "Class" : "Customers",
        "Author" : "redacted@redacted.com",
        "Purpose" : "",
        "Functions" : [
            568,
            899,
            900,
            901,
            902,
            1877,
            2880
        ]
    }

I know. My point was just that it's a needless escalation (just like replying that to you would have been), since even annoyance isn't outrage.

Either way it's talking about the inner emotions of a person on their behalf - flagged or not, how could someone possibly defend themselves against that? People can talk about their own feelings if they want, but talking about the feelings of others, feelings those other people didn't even express, just doesn't lead anywhere good, yet it's so common on the web nowadays. The wisdom of not reading feelings into text has been lost for a long time now. Let's bring it back I say :)

In short, you can ask people how they feel, but you can't tell them. Certainly not via text in absence of a history of actually knowing that individual person (as opposed to "a category of person you perceive that individual to belong to", which is how this came across to me).

> they are also welcome to clarify whatever objections they have with respect to that project.

Yes, and I can't say I disagree with it being flagged because "is this a joke?" is just needlessly convoluted. Just make your point, state where you disagree with the content etc. instead of asking others to rephrase or confirm that yes, they're serious. To me that's just as annoying as saying "y u mad bro?". But since it's already agreed that that's no good, I didn't reiterate that.

It is currently in locked-down testing. We have been slowly configuring and testing the wiki, the first new multilingual project in over 12 years! It is more complicated than a normal new wiki, in many ways.

We are expecting to open it to broader editing in the next few days - on or after August 1. We are planning an announcement at that time.

There are details of the deployment plan in our last newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_...

And a broad overview of the project at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Overview

(And many more examples of functions at our older Beta-deployment location (also currently locked down) at https://wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Ma... )

I hope that context helps! [Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, but work with the team]