As Magnus said, I had also the idea of incorporate amazon affiliate some months ago but I'm not sure if it will change the status of Wikipedia as a non-profit organization. Since amazon pages are sometimes used as a reliable source for information about books, CDs, etc. To successfully take advantage of this, Jimbo could create an account at amazonassociates. Then put the "?tag=accountname" in every amazon URL that is currently used as source, and also check for new links to add the tag. This could be easily done by a bot. There will be absolutely no repercussions in terms of usability and bandwidth, and the the income could be huge.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:22 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 December 2010 15:15, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >>> We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not >>> official or endorsed by us. > >> Thanks for clarifying. > > > Are they hotlinking? We could redirect all accesses to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_%28computing%29 ;-D > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l