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> I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I > still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a > for-profit company. I think there's a large distinction between the > Wikimedia Foundation taking a community project and encouraging a for-profit > company to make money off of it (through sidebar links and installing a > custom extension) and working with a non-profit organization to distribute > free content. > > MZMcBride > > [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikis_Go_Printable I agree with you. It's funny how this topic echoes the way the recent thread about "advertising on wikipedia" ended: On 08/11/2010 22:04, Fred Bauder wrote: > >> An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of >> wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product >> visually appealing, and used the generated money from the >> advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps >> >> It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be >> financed by advertisement on such a >> site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate >> from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more >> frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again >> make therir product more attractive, and so on >> >> >> -- >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] >> > > Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of > out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce > periodic "polished" editions. > > Fred -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM3KjEAAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6LI/YH+QFjDatXS0A78wi5rfF6wWkk NdEth2bFS/X/mXUUUE4xz7uhfZfi7U7V5D1DTtlA8PavcY3hgvtHCNeFip1mMsaK a/YXhzuHqyOR3X8qOvC64zBNHNUsSd5CnEWN0CT98IJmcy49zk+6yk0+QVoy1McX cqPXoq47CvYzo8YH6NoYlWNjOLI/iFOpUAB6QPvsr0sPhJ4mTHVA/OVCCi7LPaSu BDKqZTl1Jxu+Y9bsQqAZ118M1A1atVNUsQ5VGCWeScGxrSR3kJQf/OTDWqyqZD8z 9+JEr15WudoeeH4Xl2DyVtZ/STpbQnRlXH/CczS9FKM7JlBAWuXoXk7Fm5EhWNg= =Op94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l