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

[Delphine Ménard]

On 10/23/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
>
> >BTW, do you have a few extra million dollars laying around to pay for servers
> >next year? And what about the special projects we would like to fund but can't?
> >
> >
> What in the world sort of servers are we buying that cost a few million
> dollars?

Errr, ever tried to run a website within the top 50 in the world? I am
not good enough at technology to tell you what kind of servers we have
that cost the money we spend. But I trust the people who run and buy
them. Now, if you have a master plan to balance traffic loads/manage
the number of visits we have a day (should I say a second?)/requests
and the whole lot for a quarter and a dime, by all means, please make
yourself known, I am sure everybody is ready to listen to you.

>Who is "we" who would like to fund these special projects?

*We* is the Wikimedia Foundation, whose goal, may I remind you is
(quote from the bylaws): "The goals of the foundation are to encourage
the further growth and development of open content, social software
WikiWiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those
projects to the public free of charge."

Sending our content to developping countries in print, making
Wikijuniors available to schools in print, or on CD, allowing access
to knowledge to people in any way *we* can... Those are projects that
*we* and I allow myself to encase every single contributor in that
*we* should have at heart.

>
> Not all of us are onboard with the "Wikipedia: the bigger and more
> corporate the better" strategy.


But again, please, do give other solutions. *We*'re all ears.

Cheers,

Delphine

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~notafish