On 12/29/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
This way we keep adverts off of Wikipedia but still get the benefit of it. Granted, it will take a long time before nupedia.org became highly ranked enough to generate any significant revenue. But then, it will also take a long time before there are enough stable articles there to make it a useful place to visit.
In fact, it might be best to create a separate non-profit organization that would manage that site and distribute CDs/DVDs and print versions of Wikimedia content. That way Wikimedia could concentrate on providing a forum for creating content and thus retain all the ISP-related legal protections (ISPs are not considered to be publishers and thus are not liable for content posted through their service).
All excess revenue from that separate organization would go to the Wikimedia Foundation to help support content creation.
That sounds by far the most practical long-term solution to the where-to-put-them-damned-stable-versions problem.
I like the advertising-by-the-back-door too! (nota bene: that was a joke)
-- Sam