[Foundation-l] what do we do in the event the Foundation fails? - Re: Pol...

[Robert Leverington]

On 22/04/07, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> >
> > geni schreef:
> > >
> > > Overkill. For some reason we still hang on to wikipedia.com. Selling
> > > or renting that would be a source of income while at the same time
> > > giving us a fighting chance of reducing the number of times people use
> > > the wrong domain when talking about us.
> >
> > Selling would be not very smart to do. Renting is better then doing
> > nothing with it. But the best thing to do would to use it ourselves.
> >
> > The domain "wikipedia.com" is a potential goldmine for the Wikimedia
> > Foundation.
> >
> > If it would be used for offering a good read only copy of Wikipedia
> > *with* moderate advertisement it could be a nice source of income for
> > the WMF.
> >
> > wikipedia.com -> read only with advertisement -> $$$ -> Good for
> > everybody, maybe not need anymore to beg to the readers to give money
> > wikipedia.org -> stays like it is
>
>
> That is a good idea IMO
>
> And may be make "Edit this page" edits the version on .org... but I wonder,
> would it be efficient to mirror all the wikis real-time? or it would be an
> old copy?

It would be able to interface with the database, so yes.

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