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(a)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(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
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