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>:
On 11/7/2010 4:09 PM, geni wrote:
As for tweak algorithmic factors firstly
it's already happened at
least once (there was a noticeable drop in wikipedia's Google SERPS
positions a few years back). Secondly since both bing and yahoo rank
wikipedia highly (in fact while I haven't checked recently for a long
time google ranked wikipedia lower than those two) it seems unlikely
that any reasonable algorithmic change would kill off wikipedia's
traffic.
I don't think there's any point in checking Bing and Yahoo
separately
anymore. I'm not sure what effect that might have on Wikipedia traffic
in and of itself, but it means there are fewer algorithms to tweak, for
good or ill.
--Michael Snow
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