[Foundation-l] Auction (Was: alternatives)

[James Hare]

Delightful idea!

How about a small pamphlet containing all the existing WikiWorld comics,
plus a couple more exclusive ones, featuring commentary and signed by Greg
Williams?

On 1/6/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just another thought that came up with me today:
>
> What about an auction. I dont know whether there is interesting stuff
> enough
> to collect, and I dont expect thousends of dollars out of it, but wouldn't
> it be fun for the community to have something like an auction? People can
> give stuff that could be "cool to have" for the auction, to the
> foundation,
> and the person that bids the highest amount of money, can get the thing.
> For
> instance, I would be thinking of a postcard witht he signatures of all
> boardmembers, a used cigarette of oscar (no, not really, please come up
> with
> something more fun! :P ) or maybe even approach famous people to donate
> something that belongs to them for this cause. The stuff can varie to
> everything, but should be intensively prepared probably.
>
> Would this be fun for the community? Would it be creating some money to
> the
> foundation, would it be worth while? Are there maybe more ideas in this
> trend, that together get a meaningfull amount of money together?
>
> I understand of course it wont be possible anymore for this very
> fundraising, but I think it would be an idea for the next one. I'm not
> sure
> whether the foundation should "lower" itself to this level, or maybe it
> explicitely *should*. Please shoot! :)
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2007/1/6, Peter van Londen <londenp at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Waerth I would appreciate if you could stay with the subject, which is
> > alternative funding of Wikimedia projects by a add-driven fanpedia. The
> > fanpedia was brought up some days ago (and not reoccurring every two
> > weeks).
> > There are definitely more people than you mention; might not be the
> most,
> > as
> > I have written, because most people on nl-wp don't care about how the
> > projects are being funded. I wished that you had commented on the
> subject,
> > in stead of flaming.
> >
> > I would like some comments about the feasibility of doing such a
> project.
> > We
> > give up "add-freeness" for one project so that the other projects can be
> > funded add-free. Is that compatible with the Mission/Vision? Are there
> > other
> > points: like for instance legal liabilities as of the probable nature of
> > the
> > content on a Fanpedia?
> >
> > Robert Scott Horning: I don't know Wikia, so I don't have any idea of a
> > fanpedia under the wings of the Wikimedia Foundation would conflict with
> > Wikia's interests or vice versa. Anyhow by transporting content to Wikia
> > does not help much with funding of the Wikimedia Foundation, if I
> > understand
> > that correctly.
> >
> > SJKlein: any comments why you don't think it is a good idea?
> >
> > A lot of people involved in Wikipedia don't like adds or even sponsoring
> > if
> > a sitenotice mentions the name of logo of the sponsor. We could keep
> > advertising away of the "more-serious" project if we had an add-driven
> > sisterproject. (It doesn't have to be a fanpedia, it can be a different
> > project, but fancruft is popular!). It would be a compromise.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Londenp
> >
> >
> > 2007/1/6, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net>:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >The thing is that a lot of people work on the fancruft, imho
> > > >non-encyclopedian, part of Wikipedia and that is OK. Prison Break is
> > one
> > > of
> > > >the most visited articles on dutch Wikipedia. Most nl-Wikipedians are
> > > uneasy with this kind of articles, which evoluate to a encyclopedia
> > inside
> > > the wikipedia in itself, and would be happy to move them to a
> different
> > > project.
> > > >
> > > Most ?????? That is a very bold statement. I would say a minority.
> > > Currently in the Dutch wikipedia it is only 4 or 5 people who bring
> this
> > > up every 2 weeks or so. Including you. That is definately not most
> > > wikipedians!!!
> > >
> > > Waerth
> > >
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