Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

Thank you, Michael, for your critical note on the assertations concerning the huge sums of money. I didn't stand still at the fact that most of our Wikipedia pages have very low click rates. - Recently I read that 4% of our pages cause 50% of our traffic. The idea of Liam is interesting that we could have adverts on Special pages because those are genereated automatically. In Germany there was a discussion about adverts on www.wikipedia.de (which is owned by WMDE, unlike de.wikipedia.org). But even then, I am afraid, people will say anyway that there are "ads on Wikipedia" with the negative consequences for our reputation. And people might think that they don't have to donate anymore because Wikimedia makes money otherwise. The biggest danger remains the repercussions on our editing community. A loss of even "only" 10-20% of our power users would be very negative, especially in the smaller language communities. Personally, I am not such an opponent of adverts in general, and I would not mind to have a Wikimedia large voting on the subject. This should be only undertaken, nonetheless, if there is a substantial group of Wikimedians who really wants to go the advertising way. Kind regards Ziko 2010/11/8 Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com>om>: -- Ziko van Dijk Niederlande