Look at it from another side. A Pokemon encyclopedia might bring in a lot more money than a serious one! Why not make a wikipedia encyclopedia of popular youth culture? With Britney, Pokemon, Manga etc etc etc in there. We might have a bestseller in our hands. So we can fund the projects!! Waerth

2008/4/28 Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com>om>: Since Wikipedia is largely run by volunteers, why not make it a volunteer effort? I have no interest in Pokemon, but would happily help compile a Pokemon encyclopedia to be published if it were to raise funds for Wikimedia Foundation. I'm sure there are many other Wikipedians, Pokemon fans or not, who would also help with such an effort (or similar efforts). Some Wikimedia Foundation staff time would be necessary to OK the project with Nintendo, to seek trademark usage rights, to supply Nintendo with drafts of the project and to act as general liaison between Wikipedia and Nintendo. Even so, I don't think this would be a massive drain on Wikimedia Foundation resources, and in light of the funds the project hopes to source for the Wikimedia Foundation, I think it would be worth it. What's more, I'm only using Pokemon as an example here - there are many potential projects that could do the same thing: fictional worlds, special-interest areas (stamps, trains, planes, WWII info...), &c. -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

2008/4/28 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>om>: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles That's a book waiting to happen! That's why doing it through a commercial publisher and licensing the name and puzzle globe would be a suitable way of doing it :-) - d.