[Wikimedia-l] An idea that may improve Wikipedia's fundraising

[Jane Darnell]

Actually, an offline version of WIkipedia, though useful in remote
locations and for secure-internet areas like schools (or prisons), is
probably not as desirable as copies of specific content, such as a
Wikipedia dump of the Paleontology portal or something like that. For
people who wish to create informative apps (such as museum curators)
using Wikipedia content, it might be interesting to be able to order a
chunk of static data, such as everything we have on Monet (in all
languages:
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Improve-an-artist

If a template exists for specific dump-creation, it might be useful to
have this be a paid service, where the product is not necessarily one
dump on a dvd, but a hyperlink to a specific dump that can be updated
periodically (once a year maybe?).

2013/8/6, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com>:
> Matthew Walker wrote:
>>Technology limitations aside, there are two things we throw around in the
>>team a lot; that we should not give the impression that a user *must* pay
>>to use a WMF property, and that we will never ever do gift premiums.
>
> Hi Matt.
>
> This sounds a bit like "Fundraising principles" or similar. Are these
> documented anywhere (e.g. on Meta-Wiki)? If not, I think it'd be great to
> start a page. :-)
>
> MZMcBride
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