Jimbo has just appointed me "content partnership coordinator" for the Wikimedia foundation. It's a semi-official function which basically means that I try to negotiate useful relationships with companies or organizations who might in some way be interested in distributing our articles. The benefit for us: backlinks.

I have tried to establish contact with Amazon.com and IMDB. If you have any other ideas for websites which might be interested in our articles about - books - movies - CDs - bands - people - places - unusual sex practices,

especially sites getting a lot of traffic, please let me know. I may also be able to help with other Wikimedia projects, if there's any partnership potential there.

I consider it my responsibility to try to establish working relationships. I am not, however, interested in coordinating enforcement of the FDL (yuck). I will work on the basis of Wikipedia:Copyrights in negotiating terms.

As soon as we have some results, I will establish a special page on Wikipedia to describe these efforts.

Regards,

Erik