On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
$20.00 a year would be cheap compared to the cost of private medical insurance, which can easily be 100 times that much.
On the other hand "we" would theoretically only protect against a very specific type of accident under specific circumstances.
The whole idea is a bit dubious, and would probably work best if editors just formed an "association of Wikipedians" amongst themselves that had nothing to do with the foundation. They could chip in as much as they liked, and then spend it helping each other out of Wikipedia-caused mishaps. If you're not a member, you'd get no coverage.
I think that if such a fund/system is made, it really should be handled by the foundation though. Plus, that association sounds too much like the (perhaps stereotypical) american healthcare system to me. If a person does not belong to that association and something happens, then just too bad so sad?
Garion