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-N. -- Nathan Reed [email protected] On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Brian McNeil <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0600, Nathan Reed wrote: > > Moded the user... > > Sorry about that. > > [Nathan, if he didn't get that message I thiny you should send him one. > Wikipedia came before the WMF. The 501(c) was set up to support the > per-consensus wishes of the community at that time. I'm not privy to all > the details of, nor totally happy with those I know of, around changing > the composition of the board. I have a "gut feeling" that moves to > professionalise may impede some community innovations. However slowing > change, and making it more difficult, does have positive points. There > is no need to worry one day you'll wake up and the Conservapedia Cabal™ > have taken over. (Us Socialists are safe here, at least for now. ;-)] > > Anyway, now that the "representative sample" of people who use @AOL.COM > email addresses has gone.... > > <mutters about September That Never Ended> > > If someone on sr.wikinews wanted to take all the published articles - > per the license - and automatically reproduce on their own site - they > could add any advertising they wanted (*ANY* Wikinews contributor or > reader could). They could even charge a small fee for adverts to cover > costs. What such a site *can't* do is use the logo or in any way bill > themselves as Wikinews. Both the logo and name are registered marks. > > That doesn't rule out a licensing agreement for their use. I *think* if > you wanted to take Wikinews content and have that up-front, with a > craigslist-style advertising system, you might have a chance of a > commercial venture. Thinking project-selfishly it'd make a great > recruiting tool that could fund advertising itself. > > With the annual fundraiser coming up, now is not a time to bug Kul about > that. Frankly, with such a small WMF staff, you may have a hard time > getting to talk at all about something like that. > > However, if you could find someone interested in putting money into a > project like that for Serbia and get them to accept a number of strict > conditions - possibly even penalty clauses - would be written into such > an agreement; then, as long as the language barrier isn't too big an > obstacle, I can see that going through quickly. > > You could even get investment in tools to speed up or near-automate > generation of a print edition - where an ability to distribute at an > even more local level was possible (Adds 'Wikinewsies paid for producing > free print-edition copies with added advertising and distributing to > local businesses so they can do the original reporting they want' to the > global domination plan) . > > If it's all being funded by advertising - and someone investing > initially in tools for a commercial use that also fits Wikinews needs - > you are vastly improving the dissemination of knowledge from a Wikimedia > Foundation project that I think is overlooked where it has great > potential. > > > > -- > Brian McNeil <[email protected]> > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil > Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official > position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > >
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