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

[Mark Williamson]

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, The Cunctator<cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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