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And this is how Wikimedia continues metastasizing. Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to c

by fny 6y ago

And this is how Wikimedia continues metastasizing. Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to cater to enterprise clients. My donations and writings were intended to sustain a free, robust encyclopedia, not to create an internal division that explicitly caters to big tech. This title is misleading. The entire project is misleading. If Wikipedia Enterprise aims to succeed it will need to bow to its customer. Big tech is going to pay up, and it's going to expect exactly what it's paying for.

tyingq 6y ago
I thought I understood the Enterprise product to just be a faster API to the same content. Are you saying the content itself will diverge?
- fny 6y ago
  I'm saying the tech will diverge and will cater to corporate interests. If anything, this project needs to exist as as a separate private entity, not something within Wikimedia, unless they plan to give it to everyone for free and consider public feedback as the guiding design principal.
  - krferriter 6y ago
    Your concern seems to be about purely speculative changes you think might happen in the future, not about what is actually changing now.
tchalla 6y ago
> Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to cater to enterprise clients. How do you come to that conclusion? All data from Wikipedia is free for everyone as done before.
- slightwinder 6y ago
  This is about features, not data. Though the line can be slim and moving fast. Today they add better query-abilities. Tommorow they offer generation of additional data which not of public interesst. Next year they might add a enterprise-only content-part which contains data not available to the public for legal reasons, or considered irrelevant for the public pedia. And of course this is technically ok to do that. But at some point it undermines the original mission of the project if you mix up opposite goals, because there naturally will be a clash between people who work on different goals.

by fny 6y ago

tyingq 6y ago

I thought I understood the Enterprise product to just be a faster API to the same content. Are you saying the content itself will diverge?

fny 6y ago
I'm saying the tech will diverge and will cater to corporate interests. If anything, this project needs to exist as as a separate private entity, not something within Wikimedia, unless they plan to give it to everyone for free and consider public feedback as the guiding design principal.
- krferriter 6y ago
  Your concern seems to be about purely speculative changes you think might happen in the future, not about what is actually changing now.

tchalla 6y ago

> Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to cater to enterprise clients. How do you come to that conclusion? All data from Wikipedia is free for everyone as done before.

slightwinder 6y ago
This is about features, not data. Though the line can be slim and moving fast. Today they add better query-abilities. Tommorow they offer generation of additional data which not of public interesst. Next year they might add a enterprise-only content-part which contains data not available to the public for legal reasons, or considered irrelevant for the public pedia. And of course this is technically ok to do that. But at some point it undermines the original mission of the project if you mix up opposite goals, because there naturally will be a clash between people who work on different goals.