What about a fundraising drive featuring matched gifts? :D
On the other hand, I *do* have a thought, but I doubt that it would be much use for fundraising. The idea is simply this:
Many newspapers in Australia (and surely a number of other Western nations) release little trinkets with their (extremely popular) Sunday editions. Would it be possible to take a project such as Wikipedia 0.5 or Wikipedia 1.0, review it to ensure that the WMF is satisfied with its quality, and then invite a few national newspapers to release it for a certain fee?
I'm fairly certain that there would be some interest from publishers in doing this, but I'm very wary of both the cost of replication and the fee that would have to be charged; the idea loses its lustre when it costs so much that no publisher will touch it, and I'm afraid that might happen.
Any thoughts on this?
Cheers, David Still (User:Daveydweeb)
On 12/29/06, Patrick Hall pathall@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: --->
What about selling printed volumes of featured articles organized by topic?
I don't really know anything about the economics of publishing... but the foundation might come out on top, no?
-Pat User:Babbage
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