<story><title>Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Why would an organization limit the amount of money they have?</text></item><item><author>dmarchand90</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t like this. The foundation already has many multiples more money than it needs to cover its core goal: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailydot.com&amp;#x2F;debug&amp;#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailydot.com&amp;#x2F;debug&amp;#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...&lt;/a&gt;
This can, at best, be useless, at worst, corrupt its mission to serve corporations.&lt;p&gt;There used to be an expression  &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t fix what ain&amp;#x27;t broke.&amp;quot; I feel like this old maxim is now completely ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greyface-</author><text>In this case, it strongly incentivizes them to provide poor service to non-paying, non-enterprise API users.  Wikimedia Enterprise apparently generates daily snapshots for paying customers[1].  The general public only gets them twice a month[2].  Wikimedia&amp;#x27;s goal should be to serve the public.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;snapshot&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;snapshot&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Why would an organization limit the amount of money they have?</text></item><item><author>dmarchand90</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t like this. The foundation already has many multiples more money than it needs to cover its core goal: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailydot.com&amp;#x2F;debug&amp;#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailydot.com&amp;#x2F;debug&amp;#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...&lt;/a&gt;
This can, at best, be useless, at worst, corrupt its mission to serve corporations.&lt;p&gt;There used to be an expression  &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t fix what ain&amp;#x27;t broke.&amp;quot; I feel like this old maxim is now completely ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aunty_helen</author><text>Because it’s unnecessary and brings outside influences that could corrupt it’s stated goals</text></comment>