[Foundation-l] PediaPress

Fri Nov 12 02:39:00 UTC 2010

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> I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
> still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a
> for-profit company. I think there's a large distinction between the
> Wikimedia Foundation taking a community project and encouraging a for-profit
> company to make money off of it (through sidebar links and installing a
> custom extension) and working with a non-profit organization to distribute
> free content.
> 
> MZMcBride
> 
> [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikis_Go_Printable

I agree with you. It's funny how this topic echoes the way the recent
thread about "advertising on wikipedia" ended:

On 08/11/2010 22:04, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of
>> wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product
>> visually appealing, and used the generated money from the
>> advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps
>>
>> It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be
>> financed by advertisement on such a
>> site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate
>> from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more
>> frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again
>> make therir product more attractive, and so on
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>>
>
> Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of
> out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce
> periodic "polished" editions.
>
> Fred
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