they can now ask for funding from TAT for bringing out this sort of knowledge.
You're saying it's okay for local chapters to take funds from promotional agencies for improvement of specific articles? Not okay. Donations are fine. But with paid contributions we lost any credibility we had with the public.
On Feb 6, 2008 12:46 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Steven Walling wrote:
In other words, we're going to have to patrol Thai geography articles for promotional language and how-to sections. Great.
And what is the difference, compared to yesterday? This sort of initiative is something we must expect at all times from tourist agencies, marketing bureuas, political think-tanks, religious cults, ... from everywhere. That hasn't changed one bit.
The real difference from yesterday is that the TAT *annouced* their initiative so that *we can know* about it.
That is an opportunity for us to bring out information about how one can work smoothly with Wikipedia, educating marketing people about our licenses, guidelines, policies and ethics. If there is a Thai chapter of the WMF (is there?) they can now ask for funding from TAT for bringing out this sort of knowledge.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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