[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] The end of donations

[The Cunctator]

Cmon, keep your whining prudishness for another thread. Sheesh.

On 7/31/09, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Walter Vermeir<walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
>
>> An other way would be that Wikimedia is funded by some international
>> body, like UNESCO. The WMF budget for 2009-2010 is 9,4 million US
>> dollar. That is not a lot on a global scale.
>> I find it very normal that institutions are government funded. Probably
>> because from where I am from, Belgium, that is the way it is. But I know
>> that is not so everywhere. In some places the musea, schools, Churches,
>> hospitals and so need to receive donations to function. So that approach
>> would also not be acceptable for some because the have some problem with
>> using public funds for public services.
>
> Interesting points. And yes, accepting government or institutional
> money would probably come with conditions like improving overall
> article quality, and maybe even getting rid of our "fetish" and other
> destructive-sexuality / pro-depravity articles and images - something
> our great many pro-"freedom" dogmatists just don't want to do.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device