cmaloney | Evening | 16:27 |
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greg-g | morning | 19:26 |
cmaloney | How goes? | 21:45 |
greg-g | eh | 22:01 |
greg-g | meh | 22:01 |
cmaloney | That good eh? | 22:02 |
greg-g | headachey saturdays are my least favorite | 22:02 |
cmaloney | Ugh, headaches are the worst | 22:02 |
greg-g | that and "monetizing the API" has come up as a discussion on the public movement-wide mailing list for Wikimedia: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/thread.html | 22:03 |
greg-g | scroll to the bottom | 22:03 |
greg-g | Lila Tretikov is our ED | 22:03 |
cmaloney | nice | 22:03 |
greg-g | yeah, I'm not happy with the idea, obviously :) | 22:03 |
cmaloney | I think the second post sums up my feelings quite nice | 22:04 |
greg-g | https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081127.html ? | 22:04 |
cmaloney | Yep | 22:05 |
* greg-g nods | 22:05 | |
cmaloney | Thing is if you monetize one piece you might as well go all in | 22:05 |
cmaloney | because it's all or nothing | 22:06 |
cmaloney | and folks will figure out ways to get around paying | 22:06 |
cmaloney | eg: scraping the site. :) | 22:06 |
greg-g | yuup | 22:06 |
cmaloney | And whenever money comes into the conversation it taints it | 22:08 |
cmaloney | and nobody, but nobody wants that taint | 22:08 |
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