Monday 12, 2004 Mr. Gelemerov; Martin martin_gelemerov@yahoo.com 35039 Marburg-Lahn Germany

Dear Fondation,

I would like to present you my Project: how can I help to develop the wikipedias Database and make it profitable. First I am a bulgarian student in Germany. I�m sdudying Economics. I read a little about: How to make wikipedia profitable, so that was the reason to write this, and of course because Wikipedia is for me is a Encyclopedia with a great future!

I can try to make a collaboration between my old high scool and Wikipedia. I have a good relatioship with the director of this scool. This school is in Bulgaria, and teachs foreighn languages � english, french, italian und russian.

There are several ways that the Students can prove they knowleges, one of the most used methods is to write a Project, about something in Mathematics, Phisics, Chemistry, Logic, ecc..

So the students can build small groups (2, or 3 Students) to work together. When they are ready with the Project, they can publisc that in Wikipedia, in bulgarian and one foreighn language (that they are learning).

I thing that, this scould be very interesting for the Student, becouse, we are leaving in the Information Age, the Age of Internet, they sould be happy that they have finally did something in Internet, that everyone can see, and read.

The question is how to persuade the Director? I thing I have a good answer of this question: For this contribuation they (the school) can receive some kind of CERTIFICATE from WIKIPEDIA, with some good words about the innovative Teaching-Politic, or -Methods, for scharing information ecc.

So this Certificate from Wikipedia scould be a great adverstiment for the School (and of course great for Wikipedia too), ant I thing this can persuade the director to involve Wikipedia in the School.

If that works, the scool can try to connect with the Mass Media (like tv, newspapers ecc.), that�s again a great possibility for Wikipedia to connect with other Schools.

In my school are learning 500 Students. For one Year they can make very much for the enlargement of Wikipedia (especially in the bulgarian directory). And what�s with 50, or we say 100 Schools? (and maby not only in Bulgaria, so there is a possibility to make somethiong like knowledge-exchange program, IRC, ot some kind of that, but this is another point�)

And the best idea is coming now, that the point of all I want to do for Wikipedia, it�s about donations. If everything works, we can try to make a connection with the Ministry of Education and Culture in Bulgaria. That�s possible also indirectly. My school is very-well rated school, so that many children learning there have powerful parents in the government. So that�s the best synthesis between collaboration and donation (without any kind of adds on the Wikipedia�s pages, like other proposal that I have read on: �Making Wikipedia Profitable�).

THE ONLY THING I need is some kind of WIKIPEDIA CERTIFICATE for the school.

So that�s the only thyng I need, so the next month I�m flying to Bulgaria, were I will meet the director, to speak face-to-face, and I will try to persuade him to do this.

Sincerely,

Martin Gelemerov

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