[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia fundraising slogans from identi.ca and Twitter

[Marc Riddell]

>>> everywhere we can.
>> 
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>

>> Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
>> to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please
>> let us have some self-respect.
>> 
>> Steve

>> on 11/14/09 6:54 PM, Ryan Delaney at ryan.delaney at gmail.com wrote:

>> 
> I think self-respect is a luxury for us folks who don't have to worry about
> meeting fundraising goals. All those servers and all that bandwidth isn't
> free. These ads were bad, but they're improving. I think we ought to be
> willing to accept some fundraising once a year if we can keep it in mind
> that these fundraising drives keep corporate advertizing off Wikipedia. That
> alone ought to put this in perspective.
> 
> - causa sui

Self-respect is a luxury!?! - some commodity to put a price on!?!. A
person's attitude toward his self-respect is clearly reflected in how he
presents himself.

Marc Riddell