The bottom
line, though is the insightful comment by Mav. It is true
that simply adding e-gold with the intent of garnering donations from
existing e-gold users wouldn't lead to much additional income for the
Foundation any time soon. The only way it might ignite something
phenomenal would be if combined with actual soft promotion, on the order
of an endorsement and some explanation/interpretation. My theory is that
many of the people who find the various Wiki resources compelling and
valuable are the same type of people who are intrigued by the
possibility of a privately issued alternative global currency. My guess,
and I have no data to support this (since Mozilla and EFF barely expose
their e-gold option, let alone help to explain it), is that some subset
of them would be grateful to the foundation for bringing e-gold to their
attention in a favorable light and would go out of their way to assure
that the Foundation was the beneficiary of their incentive-related
revenues, similar to affinity card programs.
The Foundation has yet to endorse anything commercial. If it did,
there are probably plenty of more lucrative deals out there, but it
would lose a lot of faith in its users. Sorry, but the measly
*profits* would not be worth the loss of the community IMO. Although
you're could expand/create the e-gold article as long as you keep it
NPOV and factual.