I hope Wikimedia Foundation can act as a balancing force against corporate interests inside W3C. I wouldn't expect the membership to tie the foundation's hands

I hope Wikimedia Foundation can act as a balancing force against corporate interests inside W3C. I wouldn't expect the membership to tie the foundation's hands in any way. Wikimedia has already enabled W3C to have a bigger positive impact: before Wikidata, I hadn't seen much practical use for Semantic Web technologies such as SPARQL, and now we're here: https://query.wikidata.org/ https://query.wikidata.org/