"extra" services as a way to financial sustainability

while it's important to maintain access to wiki free I don't see any conceptual issue in collecting some fees for "extra" services on top of wiki. Check out http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Fusion_of_social_network_and_Wikimedia - proposal on merging some social networking features with wikimedia. I think this kind of services could generate a stream of income that would make the whole project self-sustainable without need for regular calls for donations

I will strongly suggest adding new services on this wonderful world.

It can be called Wiki-self-biography.

A site where we can create a self-biography, including names of family and friends, and a hipper link to others biographies, like the human genome but in history and the relations.

I will suggest to areas, the first one a "free" introduction of our self's, and then a series of five elementary question that will provide a real inside of the person. Then that last question will be the dream question that will lead to an additional section of the wiki-self-biography, where some body can make other peoples dream come truth.

The fun will be unlimited and the appetite for this site will be also, then we can ask for a contribution, like a $1 per self-biography.

Then in the part of the dream making, we can add stories of success and failure was some body could learn something new. Base on a philosophic principal. "For good or bad, we will se"

This idea is mine, and I called the Escudra project, I will give all the right of it to Wikipedia frees, because I believe in its work.

Regards,

Escudra

Hi Escudra -

We have a section of this wiki for ideas such as this (and thank you for it!). At Call for proposals, you can submit that proposal for consideration by the folks who visit here.

Thanks!

It is suggested that Wiki should make the site more interactive. The more interactive the site, the higher the rankings with the search engines. The higher the ranking with the search engines, the more one can charge for advertsiers. Visitors should be allowed to create/join communities, post to blogs, add videos and use other interactive tools. Wiki has the opportunity to become the online standard for doing research and interacting with other researchers.

Just a thought.

Stan Kirk

Hi Stan: You might check out the recommendation by the Community Health task force (specifically Recommendation 4, for social features. I think it speaks to much of what you are suggesting. I'm curious about your impressions of that.