[Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You ask for a better idea :)

Google just finished the Swahili Wikipedia challenge. Google very much wants
to grow traffic, any traffic in African indigenous languages. Spending money
directly on any language is imho a bad idea but I would welcome statistics
that show what people are looking for in Wikipedia that they cannot find.
When you add statistics on new articles that proved most popular in the last
month(s), we provide ANY Wikipedian a mechanism to learn what articles make
most sense to write and show what did best.

This will benefit all our project and the smaller projects will benefit most
I expect. <grin> it is not even expensive to implement I guess.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 17 February 2010 15:38, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever
> turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia
> products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to
> see them both in harmony with each other.
>
> The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?
>
> I vote we remove everything from our Google articles regarding privacy
> concerns for one day and put a banner on the articles saying:
>
> "Wikimedia Thanks Google with This Slightly More Positive Article Than
> Usual!"
>
> And then tomorrow we just revert our own edits.
>
> Does anyone have a better idea?
>
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