[Translators-l] [Fundraising 2008] Important: Appeal

ChrisiPK chrisipk at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 18:57:02 UTC 2008


I am afraid this is the wrong list for such a question. The folks on
foundation-l will probably be able to answer your question.

Regards,

ChrisiPK

2008/12/26 Kong Soon Lim <lim_kongsoon at yahoo.com.sg>:
> Hi,
>
> Referring to the last few sentences of the letter of appeal I have a few
> inquires. Take a look at the following sentences.
>
> We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of
> people like you.
>
> I invite you to join us: Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the
> whole world.
>
> The sentence structure seems to claim that WP will place advertising if it
> doesn't receive enough funding and I do believe that this isn't what we
> would want.
>
> What if WP lack of funding, will the foundation use advertising as a threat
> for donation? I hope Jimmy didn't wrote that appeal personally. Perhaps it
> is just another staff. No insult or criticism. I am just asking.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Regards,
> Kong Soon
> User: Diagramma Della Verita
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