[Wikipedia-l] Content partnerships

Wed Feb 18 11:50:02 UTC 2004

Jimbo has just appointed me "content partnership coordinator" for the  
Wikimedia foundation. It's a semi-official function which basically means  
that I try to negotiate useful relationships with companies or  
organizations who might in some way be interested in distributing our  
articles. The benefit for us: backlinks.

I have tried to establish contact with Amazon.com and IMDB. If you have  
any other ideas for websites which might be interested in our articles  
about
- books
- movies
- CDs
- bands
- people
- places
- unusual sex practices,

especially sites getting a lot of traffic, please let me know. I may also  
be able to help with other Wikimedia projects, if there's any partnership  
potential there.

I consider it my responsibility to try to establish working relationships.  
I am not, however, interested in coordinating enforcement of the FDL  
(yuck). I will work on the basis of Wikipedia:Copyrights in negotiating  
terms.

As soon as we have some results, I will establish a special page on  
Wikipedia to describe these efforts.

Regards,

Erik