[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[WJhonson at aol.com]

>>In a message dated 12/20/2008 8:06:58 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
toddmallen at gmail.com writes:

I  personally would even be willing to donate to cover WMF's costs
against my  access in this regard, provided they can negotiate
reasonable block  purchase pricing. Individual subscriptions are
unfortunately rather priced  out of the market.>>
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For researching biographies of dead people, esp. historical people, one of  
the best paid subscriptions had got to be Ancestry, with Genealogy.com a close  
second.
 
For researching biographies of living people, or the recently dead, one of  
the best paid subscriptions is NewspaperArchive.com
 
As Todd mentions, some of us already subscribe to various online  services.  
*IF* the WMF could negotiate a group rate, that could be a  win-win situation. 
 I would also come down on the side of "established  editors" versus 
"Admins".  We are trying to ease the situation for our  productive editors and so that 
would make more sense to provide a service like  this to those who are 
actually doing the editing.
 
Someone asked where is the list of the top editors by edit-count.  On  my 
talk-page here
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wjhonson_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wjhonson) 
 
 I link to the statistics page that provides the list of the top  editors by 
edit-count which is here
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits
_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits) 
 
and was last update Nov 20
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 


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