On Wed, May 9, 2007 23:43, Walter Vermeir wrote:
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.
That is quite probably true *at the moment*
The others wikis may have not a lot fund raising power but the do not need it because the are so small.
That is a self-fulfilling prophecy though which I am sure you, like me and most everyone else, would seek to do what is required to make it a false statement. We don't want them to be small but to benefit from a greater awareness of the whole.
I'm not saying that we should go down a route of changing everything from 'm' to 'p' but it would clearly help us to refine the brand images we promote and display to *readers* and help us to generate a greater and more stable income that benefits the whole range of projects. And yes, the attitudes and beliefs of editors clearly matters, but editors are a very small percentage of the beneficiaries of our intention to make our services freely available to all the world.
On another point, frankly the name of whichever project I might be contributing to is the *least* important thing that energises me and, frankly, I think that the way some people have suggested that editors would cease to contribute en masse to a particular project should its name change is completely wide of the mark.
Alison Wheeler