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

[Dori]

On 10/23/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> >Excuse me? What do you base that on? Are you at all involved in Wikimedia
> >finance? Lemme check. No.
> >
> >
> Excuse me?  When did Wikimedia finance get run in a top-down corporate
> manner?  Are you a CEO now, and we're all your paid employees?  You
> realize this is a volunteer encyclopedia project, don't you, and we
> decide what's important?  If this is going to become a "Wikimedia
> corporate decides what's important, and you all better shut up and
> listen and not complain about it", then fuck this, I'm out.

Let's not get angry over this. I trust Mav and I think he's being
doing a great job, and I'm certainly appreciative of his efforts. I
just don't think we should go the advertising route as once you come
to rely on it you're screwed.  I'd hate to see Wikipedia (and to tell
the truth I don't think the rest of the projects are going to get
anywhere anytime soon) degenerate into ads just to stay alive. I'd
much rather see it become read-only most of the time, and only allow
editing like a random hour each day if necessary.

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Dori