[WikiEN-l] Real-time mirrors as a net revenue _source_?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>> * Wikipedia remains ad-free
> 
> Why is this an important goal?  If we put, say, Google ads up on
> Wikipedia, how would it compromise Wikipedia?  They're easy enough to
> block.
> 

We've been through this before:

- es: forked at the very first *suggestion* of ads
- Ads are incompatible with NPOV

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