[Wikipedia-l] Donation History

[Thomas R. Koll]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:47:00AM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Jaap-
> > It seems that paying for the hardware and bandwidth
> > can be done by the authors, but I don't think it should.
> > The readers should pay for it, either directly or by
> > having to lookat/ignore advertisements.
> 
> Fundraising is perfectly fine. People will just have to get used to it.  
> We'll do it once a year and cover our operating costs that way. Sure,  
> Google text-ads aren't too bad, but if we can easily do without them, why  
> bother?

One could test the ads on a inofficial mirror, every money that's not need
to operate the mirror could be given to Wikimedia. That would be a good
and semi-official method.


ciao, tom
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