[Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Oct 7, 2007 @ 5:00 PM (EST)

[symode09 at hotmail.com]

RANT! SHAKE THINGS UP!

If wikinews (heaven forbid) or wikipedia are banned, the media and the 
public will kick up a huge stink and make a huge fuss, good?


im off to bed, ill contribute tomorrow


xx

symode09 +ipod

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From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:18 PM
To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Oct 7,2007 @ 5:00 PM 
(EST)

> If that was indeed the case, my apologies for ranting.
>
> I'm alternately grinning from ear to ear as I find a contact and tearing 
> my
> hair out when I find a profile without one.
>
> Before I get arrested for spamming does anyone else have ideas for people 
> we
> can look for endorsements from? The suggestion has been made that we need 
> a
> new banner every week-10 days to kick off a new spurt of donations. I'd 
> love
> to get a grab-bag of celebrities endorsing Wikimedia/Wikipedia to run for
> one of those cycles.
>
> I have access to IMDbPro for this, I had problems with the signup for
> contactvip.com, but I have a fellow Wikinewsie looking at that for me. 
> That
> could net a few more contact details.
>
>
> Brian.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cary Bass
> Sent: 08 November 2007 15:07
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Oct 7, 2007 @ 5:00 PM
> (EST)
>
> Brian McNeil wrote:
>> Waerth wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Getting the Dalai Lama to endorse us? Isn't that a sure way to get us
>>> blocked forever in China??
>>>
>>
>> Letting that risk influence us is bowing to threatened censorship. I find
>> that disgusting and totally unacceptable.
> I think that Waerth was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with his
> comment--but I could be wrong...
>
> -- 
> Cary Bass
> Volunteer Coordinator
>
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