25 Mar

Commons:Village pump

‎Proposal: add link to Wikimedia Shop in sidebar
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I propose we link to the [http://shop.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Shop] in the Commons sidebar like the English Wikipedia. Currently the shop sells a Wiki Loves Monuments calendar and will offer a Picture of the Year calendar (and more products) later this year. It'd be a nice way to promote the shop; proceeds from the products are earmarked for the community. —[[User:Mono|'''Mono''']] 05:31, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I propose we link to the [http://shop.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Shop] in the Commons sidebar like the English Wikipedia. Currently the shop sells a Wiki Loves Monuments calendar and will offer a Picture of the Year calendar (and more products) later this year. It'd be a nice way to promote the shop; proceeds from the products are earmarked for the community. —[[User:Mono|'''Mono''']] 05:31, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

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:for the community my arse! (excuse my language) since when does anyone except the WMF employees and everyone who gets a seat on the gravy train get a piece of the cake ? The cash is being spent in the most appalling places, with no safeguards in place. There is no screening process to keep garden variety sociopaths and sadists from using sockfarms to get themselves onto arbcom or the WMF, and anyone can get an admin position. The cash is to be diverted from paying from servers (which it doesn't actually, they are donated) into paying for lawyers if anyone gets sued for their misdeeds. Like that girl who committed suicide from Internet bullying recently, people who do things like cause that kind of grief have no hindrance whatsoever to stop them joining up, and the donations are soon to be used to support and indemnify them in court if they are ever sued which makes the whole process of bullying a whole lot more attractive. The overwhelming consensus to deal with the problem is reminiscent of the car companies before they were forced to introduce seat belts in cars, they didn't want to talk about it and actively suppressed all frank discussion of it. Adding a shop button would make more people wonder where all the tens of millions of dollars raised is actually heading. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 05:50, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

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