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In a message dated 12/20/2008 8:06:58 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

toddmallen@gmail.com writes:

I personally would even be willing to donate to cover WMF's costs against my access in this regard, provided they can negotiate reasonable block purchase pricing. Individual subscriptions are unfortunately rather priced out of the market.>> ------------------------------------------------- For researching biographies of dead people, esp. historical people, one of the best paid subscriptions had got to be Ancestry, with Genealogy.com a close second.

For researching biographies of living people, or the recently dead, one of the best paid subscriptions is NewspaperArchive.com

As Todd mentions, some of us already subscribe to various online services. *IF* the WMF could negotiate a group rate, that could be a win-win situation. I would also come down on the side of "established editors" versus "Admins". We are trying to ease the situation for our productive editors and so that would make more sense to provide a service like this to those who are actually doing the editing.

Someone asked where is the list of the top editors by edit-count. On my talk-page here _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wjhonson_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wjhonson)

I link to the statistics page that provides the list of the top editors by edit-count which is here _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edit... _ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edit...)

and was last update Nov 20

Will Johnson

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