On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:39:12PM -0600, Chuck Smith wrote:
Three points:
o Unesco o TakingItGlobal o Google AdSense
I was thinking the other day that the goals of Wikipedia are in line with those of Unesco and I was wondering if we could somehow try to become officially connected with Unesco to gain a better reputation. We might also be able to get significant financial grants from them in this way.
This is a great idea!
Also, I think it would good if we could put the Wikipedia project and the Wikimedia foundation in the TakingItGlobal database which is a database for activists, so that we can connect. TIG works as an umbrella organization for other non-profits.
I don't know what TakingItGlobal is, so I have no opinion.
I know people are going to yell at me, but I think Google AdSense would produce an incredible amount of money for the project. We could show them to anonymous users and people who log in could turn them off if they wanted. Well anyway, it's just a suggestion, don't bite my head off.
No way!! Many people, me included, contribute to wikipedia because of a spirit of freedom/communist zeal/whatever that would largely evaporate if wikipedia started serving ads. Even a symbolic thing like the change from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org was a big motivation for me. Anyway didn't Jimbo promise us long back that there would *never* be ads on wikipedia? :)
Arvind