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

[GerardM]

Hoi,
I am getting more and more annoyed with the people that are not thinking
constructively about what is at stake. The Wikimedia Foundation is not only
about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not only about the en.wikipedia. Our growth is
increasingly NOT in wikipedia and certainly not in the en.wikipedia. The
funding is about ebabling what already exists for the English people
interested in encyclopedic information.When you do not log on, you get
excellent info and response in English.

The other resources need to be build up, this attitude of what do we need it
for is discriminatory. If it intended as such fine. If you think that we can
grow in quality and quantity without ever increasing amounts of money you
have not followed things. We are talking about growth on a scale where
marginal changes will atrackt us more money, but not on the scale that is
needed.

I am on record that with Ultimate Wiktionary in full production with full
features for one year, it will be as big as Wikipedia was in August 2005.
Now in order to make that possible, money and major amounts of money will be
involved. When this money is to be raised through the standard Wikimedia
ways, it would not be possible because it would drain the money away from
Wikipedia. So please tell me if you have constructive ideas on how to make
this happen.

I am also on record that we can find the money for these things.. As much as
you do want things to stay the same, I want to see change because it is only
now that we are aproaching the tipping point where we are in a position to
make many of the things possible.

People who know me, now that I do almost everthing to have the things I
believe in come true. They also know that i will not squander away the
values of what we stand for. When some person aggresively removes these
links, I will be sorry for the narrow mindedness that it demonstrates. It
must also be an admin to do this, I will wonder to what extend this
behaviour will be mitigated by him finding the funds that are lost to the
rest of us. This is the least I would expect of someone who is this position
of responibility.

Thanks,
GerardM