> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l