[Wikipedia-l] anyone heard back from Jimbo Re: 100M?

Tue Nov 7 17:03:47 UTC 2006

I am crossing my fingers that this comes to pass.

In the meantime, if we want to look at guerilla ways to fund raise, maybe we
can take a page out of Creative Commons' playbook and use Revver. Create a
few short videos about the Wikipedia cause, Revverize them, and shoot them
into the webosphere. We could place links to the videos on Wikipedia.

Any thoughts?

Mitch

On 11/6/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> Steve wrote:
> > Liberatory 100M.
>
> A lot of good ideas of stuff we want were collected.  There is no
> further news at this time, but remember... this is not about a donation,
> but someone trying to think of sustainable business models around doing
> content liberation in conjunction with Wikipedia...  it is one thing to
> imagine someone deciding to donate that much money to the movement, but
> another thing altogether to think about someone doing something
> sustainable (i.e. where they can recoup their investment).
>
> Again, to be clear, this has nothing to do with AOL or Jason Calacanis'
> idea of slapping banner ads on Wikipedia.
>
> This might not be a bad time for people to start mulling that over... :)
>
> --Jimbo
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