On 12/29/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)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