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
--
Its all GNU to me