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

[Jimmy Wales]

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...

Yes, but I think mostly because Amazon is under a boycott by RMS for
their patent policies.

--Jimbo