On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Johnston samj@samj.net wrote:
... now the French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial
publishing...
As already pointed out by several people (including me [1]), this is blatantly false. Could you please stop spreading this deliberate misinformation?
Your argument about "merely" accepting donations 'under the table' is weak and if anything issuing press releases impeaches the chapter further. As I said to GerardM off-list, selling drugs for charity is still selling drugs.
Wikipedia's recent moves to both sell content commercially (even if simply by turning a blind eye to the practice) and attempt to filter it with flagged revisions (thus taking a big step from being a distributor towards being a publisher) are going to require some amount of review of existing practices.
In any case this is all off-topic for the thread,
Sam
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/049571.html
-- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]]