On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Anthere wrote:
2) News agents
and others: this might raise money if we could offer
them some stable version which has been scanned for vandalism. Call it
premum content.
Hmmmm. Though I am not so sure the idea of selling scanned-for-vandalism
version, whilst letting non scan for free, will be widely accepted.
People may request free AND checked. Or maybe I did not exactly
understood your proposal.
Once we have a way to generate a scanned-for-vandalism flag, I imagine
that all communities will move to take advantage of this, and it will be
available to all.
* Much of what we have is fancruft, and it seems
fairly popular. Move
all fanstuff to a separate project, outside wikipedia. Call if
fanpedia or something. Let this project be more liberal in its
acceptance of media, and let this project accept advertisements. This
could probably support all wiki projects.
So... what you suggest is that the Foundation set up a website,
primarily constituted of fan-oriented information, with mostly
copyrighted images under fair-use doctrine, and put advertisement on
this web site, and use the income generated by this mean to support
other projects ?
Errrrr. What do other think of that idea ???
This sounds like a mistake.
SJ