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

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Dori <slowpoke at gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you mean how? They track usage. I don't trust a company that's
> out to make money to not abuse their position. Even if they're well
> intentioned now, they could be bought off.

Every website can and often do track usage. Even we log that stuff. 
 
> "Diversify our income source" sounds horrible to me. That's not what's
> important.

Excuse me? What do you base that on? Are you at all involved in Wikimedia
finance? Lemme check. No. 
 
> What projects? If we can't fund them, we can't. Do partnerships mean
> that we'll be able to fund every project? 

Perhaps you should visit the foundation wiki or even the donation page:
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access
to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
 
> If we put in advertising
> (flash, popups, selling user tracking), and changed the license to be
> restrictive I'm sure we could get in more money and fund more
> projects. Does that mean that's the direction we should head?

Strawman. Nobody is proposing that.

> Do we even know how much money we'll be getting out of this? Have we
> exhausted all other possibilities? Whatever happened to the Google
> donation? Has the board gone to all possible sources before going to
> advertising deals?

This is not an advertising deal. It is one of many partnerships we will need to
enter to help keep everything running. 

-- mav


		
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