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Je Dimanĉo 01 Junio 2003 11:14, Daniel Ehrenberg skribis:
Why does everyone oppose advertizing? I it's descrete enough, it's not intrusive and doesn't lower our credibility.
See, Dan, there *is* no such advertising. If it were sufficiently discreet, unobtrusive, and non-credibility-lowering to not send half our contributors away in disgust, advertisers wouldn't be willing to pay because no one would be able to see it.
You may not remember as it was before your time, but a year or so ago all but one or two of the Spanish Wikipedia contributors revolted and left to build the Enciclopedia Libre because Jimbo was _considering_ putting small, tasteful, textual ad banners on the English Wikipedia only, which anyone would be able to disable by logging in and setting their preferences to "no ads".
So we're a little touchy on the subject. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)