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

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 10/24/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> > I think the question many of us are wondering is what happens if the
> wiki
> > process puts the link in a place which Answers Corporation doesn't
> consider
> > a position of prominence? Do we forfeit the revenue? Are we in violation
> of
> > the agreement?
>
> During the first 60 days, both they and we have the right to cancel for
> any reason at all. I doubt very much that will happen.
>
> --Jimbo

 The more details I learn about the deal, the more it sounds like a donation
more than anything else. The only place I was really skeptical was with the
link we were giving to them, but if this really is going to be handled
throught the normal wiki process then I see why many are saying it's not
advertising - in that case it isn't.
 Whoever negotiated this deal did a good job. In its essence we give them
the right to call the software "Wikipedia edition", and they give us half
their revenues for that software. Yeah, yeah, we add a link to
Wikipedia:Tools, but that's a good idea anyway, and yeah, we add a link to
the tool from that page, but if the wiki process is going to be used to add
that link, then again it's something we would have done anyway.
 Anthony