alt Hacker NewsSome great initiatives being funded, especially: >PeerTube for Institutions — Make PeerTube easier to manage and moderate at scale
I'd LOVE to see more institutions and NGOs move to PeerTube.
The only gripe I see is funding for Wiktionary, part of the well funded Wikimedia that spends over a quarter of its budget on "Building analytics and ML services" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...
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rapnie • today at 2:34 PM
TIL to my surprise that Wikimedia has an Enterprise, which serves big customers like Google. We monetise what you crowdsource to us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Wikimedia...
> The only gripe I see is funding for Wiktionary
Seems like a well-specified and specific reason for the funding though, not just "do whatever you want":
> This project will develop QA modules for Wiktionary, leading to easy parsing and processing of cross-linguistic data. This helps to unify data formats across Wiktionary, and improve the overall reliability of this invaluable resource.
Given that the EU has 24 official languages, I think it makes a lot of sense to try to contribute resources for improving cross-linguistic data, bonus points for funneling those resources to a relatively open platform.