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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

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473 points edent | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 07:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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pickledoyster ◴[23 Apr 25 08:31 UTC] No.43769839[source]▶
Some 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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1. diggan ◴[23 Apr 25 11:47 UTC] No.43770988[source]▶
> 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.