[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

[Javier Bassi]

As Magnus said, I had also the idea of incorporate amazon affiliate
some months ago but I'm not sure if it will change the status of
Wikipedia as a non-profit organization. Since amazon pages are
sometimes used as a reliable source for information about books, CDs,
etc. To successfully take advantage of this, Jimbo could create an
account at amazonassociates. Then put the "?tag=accountname" in every
amazon URL that is currently used as source, and also check for new
links to add the tag. This could be easily done by a bot. There will
be absolutely no repercussions in terms of usability and bandwidth,
and the the income could be huge.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:22 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 15:15, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>>> We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not
>>> official or endorsed by us.
>
>> Thanks for clarifying.
>
>
> Are they hotlinking? We could redirect all accesses to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_%28computing%29 ;-D
>
>
> - d.
>
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