[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

Thu May 4 15:21:04 UTC 2006

Hi. I was thinking a long time about this ... because on one hand 
Wikipedia is neutral, so why should companies like Siemens and Crysler 
have more right for an article than small start-ups? Who knows what this 
start-up is going to be in some years?

Why not restrict information to: Company xyz is in abc and produces bla 
bla bla ....

Leading then to a project like http://wikicompany.org?

I wish to point out that I am not associated with Wikicompany and that I 
write this on a personal title - I only see his project as a very valid 
one for the way it is being built. At least on such a project there 
would be no problem of a company describing its services and inserting 
links. Another advantage is that there would not be that "Logos are not 
allowed"-problem with Commons - it is an outside project, a good and 
free one. And in that way: no company gets a direct link on wikipedia, 
but just one link to the outside project where their contents then of 
course must comply with the rules there.

Well, this could solve the problem ...

My 2 cts.

Best,

Sabine
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