[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Thomas Dalton]

On 6 March 2011 09:48, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2011 09:12, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Indeed. That claim's a definite "citation needed".
>
> I know you follow the media with regards to wikipedia to at least some
> extent. You must have noticed the "WMF is a tiny little organisation
> running a great big website" story played well. The foundation was
> still trying to play that card until fairly recently.

It's great for getting donations and encouraging other organisations
to work with us. It isn't why people read Wikipedia, though. They read
it because it is useful and free (as in beer).