Chuck Smith msochuck@yahoo.com wrote:

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.

Looks good on the surface. However official connections with other organizations may bring certain responsibilities and restrictions we would be better off no dealing with. It's something to look into.

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.

Well, maybe. I don't know anything about TIG.

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.

Yell, yell, rant, flame, etc, etc. No ads, please. It's not that I think that all advertising in all forms is evil, but it's really nice to have an ad-free space for everyone to work in. Plus, many people will quit on principle. The possibility of advertising seems to have been a major factor in the Spanish fork.

Stephen Gilbert