[Foundation-l] Designs and other fundraiser updates

[Christiano Moreschi]

Of course Wikipedia is for profit. Just not monetary profit.

CM

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> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:02:15 +0100
> From: thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Designs and other fundraiser updates
> 
> > 1) The slogan "Wikipedia is a non-profit" sounds weird to me.
> > Technically, Wikipedia is not "'a" non-profit (which in my English as
> > a second language view of the world, means organisations) . However,
> > Wikipedia is non-profi, ie. the project is not meant for profit.
> >
> > Maybe that doesn't work in English, I don't know. I suppose that the
> > site notice is going to be translated, so maybe make sure that the
> > translation makes sense rather than reflects the English text. Also,
> > in many languages (well, at least in French) non-profit is a huge set
> > of words. We might want to "localize" the slogans rather than just
> > "translate them".
> 
> The same applies to English. "non-profit" is short for "non-profit
> organisation", which Wikipedia isn't. "Wikipedia is not for profit"
> might be better.
> 
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