On 24/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/10/2007, Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com wrote:
We need an open and sensible discussion about adverts, but I suspect this won't be happening. It's not upto the users now, it's solely upto the
board
and if they want to try and run Wikipedia on donations, it's their prerogative.
Nothing is solely up to the foundation. Plenty of people have made it clear they would leave/fork if adverts were added to Wikipedia. If the foundation wants to continue to have projects to host, they need to listen to what their users want. They understand this, I think it very odd that so many users seem not to.
It is also worth noting that this has happened already - a few years ago pretty much the whole Spanish Wikipedia just got up and left because the notion of ads was even floated (though this may have been just a last straw) - so caution is well advised.
- d.