I brought this subject up in most part because of this: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia which is linked to from User:Jimbo Wales. This gave me the impression that it was something he was considering in the back of his mind all the time. Reading it also gave me the impression that we may get to the point where we have to implement ad's. Now, on weather or not Jimbo will be the deciding factor, you will have to ask him weather or not he will let the community choose on closing the wikipedia vs. ad's.
-- Michael Becker
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Toby Bartels Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3.50 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Regarding Advertising on Wikipedia
MBecker wrote in part:
There is no need to argue about weather or not we should have advertisements, b/c when it comes down to
it, it really isn't our decision.
I can't figure out why you think this. Do you mean that Jimmy might impose it on us against our wishes? Or that we'll be forced to do it in order to survive financially? Both of these scenarios seem rather unlikely to me (but perhaps you have some other reason in mind).
I think that Ec is right that we should budget first.
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