Hi All!
This is my first post on the mailing list and I am not sure if this is the right mailing for this topic.
Actually I had two ideas
1)I have found that people tend to use the internet a lot to research about about various products/services that they wish to buy.And as far as I know most of the sites that offer information on the products or services are commericial sites either hosted by the creator of the product or service or by some other commercial site which would probably also be selling the product, so there is no guarantee how unbiased the information is.So I was wondering if we can create a web site which will have unbiased information about all the products/services in the world, where users will create the pages with product/service information , how good , how bad it is, what are the alternatives, what price the user paid etc etc.Something similar to the wikipedia site for knowledge where users can log in and edit.I have not thought about the design of the web site, its just a rough idea so far, but what do you people think?wouldnt it be great to have just one web site where you can look up all the unbiased information of whatever product/service you want to buy?
2)I was reading that wikimedia projects need lot of donations to support hardware and software requirements for the staggering growth its having.Iwas wondering if wikimedia could earn this money by itself for example by just showing some small non intrusive adds(like google adds) which are selected in a fair fashion by a search algorithm(again its a rough idea not sure how to do it yet), wouldnt that be good?Obviously all this money can be pushed back into the primary goal of wikimediafoundation 'Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." wouldnt that make the wikimediafoundation much more stronger to achieve its goal?Just a thought what do you people think?
Thank you!
Regards GP