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by starkparker
1054 days ago
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Denny Vrandečić — the lead developer of Wikifunctions, former Germany PM of Wikidata, co-developer of Semantic Wikipedia, and former member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees — also helped develop Google's Knowledge Graph from 2013 to 2020. None of this is hidden, it's even on his Wikipedia article.[1] The "having the world's encyclopedia translated by an advertising company" ship sailed years ago. All of these projects are supported, directly and indirectly, by exactly that motivation. The ultimate goal of commercial enterprises is to take zero-cost volunteer projects like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap and make them cheaper for enterprises to associate user input with compatible monetization. It's now just a bonus side-effect, rather than their mission, that any public good comes from these projects. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87 |
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