"Carcharoth" <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:206791b10908110309j4ef2cca3l777b8fcb5e86c...@mail.gmail.com... > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Jay > Litwyn<brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote: >> "stevertigo" <stv...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:7c402e010907301615q7f86e8a1v5edb56ced5a80...@mail.gmail.com... >>> Sorry, thought this was going to foundation-l. >>> >>> -S >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, stevertigo<stv...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to >>>> some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to >>>> eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this >>>> not also the case with Wikimedia and many charitable donations to it? >> >> Carcharoth answered that question in October or November > > <snip> > > I'm not entirely sure I did answer that question back then (I can't > find anything on a brief search). I might have done, so if you point > me to an e-mail I wrote to this list, I'll accept that. Even if I did, > no-one should have accepted it at face value, as I was likely just > giving an uninformed opinion (can you tag mailing list posts with > "citation needed"?). And any case, what SJ (Samuel Klein) has just > said is obviously much better informed!
Mis-attributed. http://www.mail-archive.com/wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00012.html It was Anthony. You were only in the message, sorry. I had fully intended to read source documents to find out if I would get a conclusion, and...well...even if I understand it, I hate legalese, and making chaos click less took longer than I thot. In any case, the way I see it, we are more likely to see donations from grateful dot coms (like *.wikia.com) and commercial interests who exploit our information -- our unannounced printer being an example. Those donations would reduce our cravings for donations from contributors. The DVDs at WalMart (an investment) were solidly a risk, because you would be depending on people with slow access or no access to the internet, and that is dwindling, TMK. I would not mind knowing how it panned out. _______ http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
