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

[Ryan Delaney]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>wrote:

> >>> 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.
>
>
I'll be right behind you when you start the socialist revolution
(seriously), but I don't think Wikipedia will be the starting point.

- causa sui