On 25/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I think that's the key. Personally, I'd rather have opt-out targetted advertising for two weeks out of the year than have untargetted forced banner advertising for two months out of the year.
It's not untargetted. It targets users of Wikimedia projects, which are the people most likely to donate to Wikimedia projects.
Nitpicks aside, I think you know what I mean.
It's not a nitpick. Your key point was that ads are more targeted than donation banners, and I disagree. When I look something up on Wikipedia, I'm rarely interested in buying anything related to it, I'm interested in finding out about it - ie. having access to free knowledge, which is exactly what the donation banner is about.