[WikiEN-l] Ads on Wikipedia?

[Garion1000]

On 12/31/05, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > The 'server strain' argument occurs only because exponential
> > growth has been
> > seen.  WP _has not_ crumbled under the strain.  Traffic seems
>
> It's the only site I have regularly used in the last couple of years
> which as a normal part of usage puts up "Server experiencing
> difficulties, come back lately".  I get that message on WP pretty much
> every day during certain hours.  And that's not to mention some of the
> more esoteric messages like edits being disabled, the DB being out of
> sync etc. I would *much* rather have ads than put up with server
> unavailability.


That is a pretty good argument for ads yes. I still don't know myself, I do
really like it that wp is ad free.

Perhaps we should use Google ads on Wikipedia. Daniel Brandt will have a
field day with that one. :)

Garion