What if we used wikipedia.com (or wikimedia.com, which RDRs to wikimedia.org which is a portal for our dozen-odd projects) as a non-editable showcase for stable, featured content from the other projects. properly tie everything together on a single topic from wikipedia, wiktionary, wikibooks, wikiquote, wikisource, wikiversity, wikinews and of course commons. It would be advertising for OURSELVES.
toss in a permanent sitenotice for fundraising, cafepress etc links, WMF press releases... Wikimedia World.
Have we tried using it for advertising for ourselves? I mean a huge chunky donate form, + soft redirect to .org, might encourage people to both donate, and remember the url correctly. :)
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 23/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
How about using the old domain, wikipedia.com, as a site for stable Wikipedia versions, with ads on? The ad money, as well as paying our comparatively small hosting and staff costs, could go toward educational programmes for those people who could benefit from our hard work but *aren't* comfortable, well-fed first-world citizens.
(As far as I can tell, pretty much all opposition to ads on Wikimedia comes from people who are in fact comfortable, well-fed first-world citizens. I eagerly await news and demographics otherwise.)
- d.
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