I think it's that if you were to enable the RED option in your settings, you'd get a new skin, a different Main Page, and advertisements. Money earned from the ads goes towards AIDS research and partially towards Wikimedia.
It sounds like a good idea, as long as it's off by default.
On 6/22/06, Daniel Bregman dbmag9@gmail.com wrote:
(Product)^RED (RED is in superscript) is a brand name which works with other well-known brands to produce a product of which at least 1% of the profit goes to (Product)^RED, and this goes in aid of helping fight AIDS and related diseases. See http://joinred.com for information
Why not set up a (Wikipedia)^RED which would essentially be a skin through which the normal Wikipedia is viewed: it would change the colours to red (or shades thereof), have a different Main Page which explains the scheme and has inobtrusive advertisements on the side (under the interwiki links) which generate revenue to do to (Product)^RED (and Wikimedia).
I think that the aim of this is wholly consistent with that of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I would like to hear your views.
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