Yikes! That could be quite problematic!
But still, fundamentally, we aren't here for the money. Clearly,
people need to put their heads together and come up with a creative
back up money making solution for the Wikimedia Foundation should this
happen again.
Emily
On May 12, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
On 12/05/2010, AGK <wikiagk(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
On 11 May 2010 22:43, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've long thought the presence of graphic
sexual pictures on
Commons, and certainly in Wikipedia, does more harm than good,
because
it means the site "can't be trusted" in the eyes of librarians,
teachers, etc etc.
Long-term, we're aiming to compile all knowledge into one
freely-accessible location. We shouldn't infringe on that mission,
even if we displease some easily-upset persons along the way.
According to the Guardian, the easily-upset people could perhaps
include some of the sponsors of the Wikipedia, and Fox newspaper has
been deliberately seeking them out, and trying to persuade them not to
donate any more money:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/10/ipad-apple
AGK
--
-Ian Woollard
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