Subject: Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation, gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english
Date: 2005-10-20 19:59:40 GMT (2 years, 37 weeks, 3 days, 4 hours and 9 minutes ago)
In a press release today (<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051020/ukth030.html?.v=1>), The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new partnership with Answers.com. A proposal was made by Answers Corporation to add a link in the sidebar of the English Wikipedia to the Wikipedia:Tools page (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools>). That page will highlight the "1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition" software. Revenues from this toolbar will be split with the Wikimedia Foundation. The Board have signed up to a 60-day trial of this proposal. I would like to welcome comments on this, both before the launch early next year, and during the trial period. The talk page at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Tools/1-Click_Answers> should be used so that comments can be kept in one place. Angela.