Fixiing Wikipedia: Wikipedia.com

So here’s the idea. Two wikipedias, sharing the same infrastructure and databases - in fact, the same site as now, with a special case.

Wikipedia.org serves the content without ads
Wikipedia.com serves it with ads

You can use whichever site you prefer, but one of them raises money for Wikipedia.

Thoughts?

Apr 13 2008 04:24 pm | Everything Else |

2 Responses to “Fixiing Wikipedia: Wikipedia.com”

  1. on 13 Apr 2008 at 6:56 pm   David Gerard

    I suggested this on the Foundation mailing list a while ago, but people didn’t like the idea. Far too many people amongst both the writers and readers seem to consider *any* ads the work of Satan.

  2. on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:20 am   Arto Bendiken

    Not a bad idea, but they’ve been incredibly resistant to this manner of funding models.

    As for me, I type in a lot of Wikipedia addresses by hand and just wish they’d do away with the superfluous /wiki/ in the URLs (hence getting to “perfect” URLs), and while we’re on the topic of Christmas wishes, they should bring DBpedia into the fold, too ;-)

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