On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:00, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed; and arguably Craig Newmark is much, much more famous in San > Francisco (where he's a local celeb) than he would be pretty much > anywhere else. That might be part of the issue here. If you know who > he is in the SF-tech-community-philanthropy context, it might strike > you as more of a clear use of his good name to generously support a > cool project. If you don't, it might look like more of a clear > advertisement for Craigslist. Yes, that would be my main "criticism" about this all. Not that I think it's advertising, but I think Greg mentionned it earlier in the thread, rather that Craigslist has probably an audience that (apart from being centered in the US, SF etc.) has a lot in common to our contributing community. ie. people who already have desactivated the site notice long ago ;) > > Regardless this is basically the same debate we had over Virgin Unite > -- the name of any commercial organization (and probably any other > nonprofit organization, too, if we're honest with ourselves) being > displayed on the site provokes intense dislike and debate among a > large section of the community -- for various reasons, but mostly > summarized as we don't want to use the resources of Wikipedia to > advocate or advertise for another organization. Sooo true. Parochialists, are we? :D Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l