Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit) GLAM
consultancy organisation in Greece that wants to do a wiki-town project
with the city of Thessaloniki. They've already got the city council and
several museums of the city, and some [as yet undefined] level of support
from
Hmm, if it gets funded along the lines indicated, that might open the flood
gates of similar applications (why wouldn't you if WMF picked up the tab),
but it would appear to be contrary to the normal principle of not paying for
content development. I guess we wait and see .
Kerry
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The foundation would probably contribute to installation costs with the
plates but overall project management and staff costs would be unlikely
It'd open a flood gate if they did I have a number of future Wikitown
projects here ready to go if funding my expenses and time needed wasnt an
issue.
Like I said, there is currently no formal application for funding, or even
a project plan - just discussions with stakeholders and seeing what's-what.
My advice was to create a project page on the Greek Wikipedia to help
develop/expand on the project's goals, list potential important
