[Foundation-l] Re:Information

Mon May 3 20:15:28 UTC 2004

Anthere-

> I mean this

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&diff=3428085&oldid=3418
> 941

I made this edit to reflect plans to fund a printed "WikiReader" (a  
compilation of selected articles on a topic) from foundation money. These  
WikiReaders are an invention of the German Wikipedians, and Jimbo and  
TomK32 have been in discussions to fund such a reader (on the subject  
"Internet"), primarily for the Wizards of OS conference in June. The last  
result of these discussions was that this was pretty firmly planned, but  
Jimbo obviously hasn't announced it yet.

Jimbo has also publicly stated that he wants to use foundation money to  
bring Wikipedia into the third world:

"The day will come when I will put out the call for funds to distribute  
paper copies of Wikipedia to every child in every third world country in  
the world. This, too, is our mission."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Webby_Awards

It seems like good stewardship to announce our intent to use donated money  
in this fashion beforehand.

Regards,

Erik