Thanks for links! I knew this had come up before but didn't occur to me to search around for links. To me the best argument from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements is it doesn't bring in much money and enough comes from other sources. i.e. the bottom line... Yeah!
On 2/2/2012 7:24 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 19:05, Carol Moore DCcarolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
and if that means accepting not overly intrusive advertisements from select advertisers, if they legally can, I'm all for it
FYI
historical: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre#Reasons_for_the_split
brainstorming: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising
interesting #s: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Should_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Does_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F
modern responses to people saying we should run ads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
-Jeremy