[Foundation-l] Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership

[Fred Bauder]

I like these deals Jimmy Wales is making, they seem to often not only  
aid us but greatly increase use of our site and our visibility. One  
would think we are well known, but actually only a small fraction of  
the public is aware of us and use us. If Wikipedia opinion was  
strongly against them it would be strongly expressed.

Fred

On Oct 22, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Delirium wrote:

> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>
>> I think that not only should the revenue relationship be disclosed on
>> the page, it should be prominently highlighted as a _feature_.   
>> You can
>> use the Answers.com 1-Click tool, if you like, and if you do, it  
>> brings
>> in revenue to support Wikipedia.
>>
>>
> This somehow seems similar to the abandoned idea to highlight  
> Amazon referrer links for ISBNs, who also would bring revenue to  
> the Wikimedia Foundation if people wanted to use them, but which  
> ran into considerable opposition...
>
> -Mark
>
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