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

[Dori]

On 10/24/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely there's only a handful of logical conclusions here:
>
> 1. We stay with just donations (small private and few large coporate
> ones) and the site slowly bogs down as traffic demand outstrips server
> supply
> 2. We try more small stuff like the Amazon and the forthcoming 1-Click
> experiments, but let's be honest unless WP is plastered in them
> they'll never make much of a difference
> 3. We eventually accept a small amount of Adsense (or Adsense-syle)
> advertising on the site, which will most likely pay for what we need.

Obviously you're highlighting 3 there, and the obvious corollary to
all three is that a bunch of editors and readers will pack their bags
and leave. If the stacks of money is better than editors and readers,
then the foundations should go for it. And don't for a second think
that it will be one or two, many people are opposed to this, and a
tidy sum have already left just because of the *possibility*.

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Dori