Alison Wheeler schreef:
On Wed, May 9, 2007 13:43, Brianna Laugher wrote:
b) How does renaming the projects generate funds?
With a few minor exceptions, people donate / give grants to Wikimedia because of Wikipedia. It is the big encyclopaedia which draws in the largest number of eyeballs and has by a very long way the most name recognition and, therefore, finances all the other projects. If those other projects were to try and raise money on their own account - to be the 'independent projects' that some seem to desire - they would fall at the first hurdle.
But who are the wikis that costs all the money? That must be EN Wikipedia and the rest of the top 5 or 6 wikipedias and commons.
The others wikis may have not a lot fund raising power but the do not need it because the are so small.
My total yearly operating budget for wikizine is about 30 euro. I know that is not the same but even with a couple of zeros after it the cost on the total budget for the smaller wikis must be pocket change.