Cmon, keep your whining prudishness for another thread. Sheesh. On 7/31/09, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Walter Vermeir<[email protected]> wrote: > >> An other way would be that Wikimedia is funded by some international >> body, like UNESCO. The WMF budget for 2009-2010 is 9,4 million US >> dollar. That is not a lot on a global scale. >> I find it very normal that institutions are government funded. Probably >> because from where I am from, Belgium, that is the way it is. But I know >> that is not so everywhere. In some places the musea, schools, Churches, >> hospitals and so need to receive donations to function. So that approach >> would also not be acceptable for some because the have some problem with >> using public funds for public services. > > Interesting points. And yes, accepting government or institutional > money would probably come with conditions like improving overall > article quality, and maybe even getting rid of our "fetish" and other > destructive-sexuality / pro-depravity articles and images - something > our great many pro-"freedom" dogmatists just don't want to do. > > -Stevertigo > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
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