[Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

Wed Nov 19 10:39:06 UTC 2008

Hoi,
The Zimbabwean dollar has $ as its symbol. The text in the fund raising
banner talks about a $6 million goal. Somehow I doubt that Paypal accepts
Zimbabwean $$. That is a good thing :)
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> George Herbert wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Who wants to go poke Mugabe, maybe we will get even more money?
> >>
> > I appreciate the motivation, but please let's not go there.
> >
> > The possible issues have some rather serious downsides, ranging from
> > "WMF not being seen as an independent neutral broker of accurate
> > information" to "playing geopolitics for keeps is dangerous".
> >
> >
> >
> It also needs to be remembered that the people in Germany who may have
> responded to this incident had the money to give in the first place. The
> people in Zimbabwe who might be responsive to such a situation are
> faci8ng hyper-inflation and are unlikely to have the funds to give.
>
> Even if we can get past the neutrality and fiscal issue we still don't
> have a Zimbabwean chapter to reap the benefits.
>
> Ec
>
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