Dan Grey wrote:
On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently
dedicated to Wikipedia
> to spend their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005,
> wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to
me.
> Maybe it does to you.
I think you're under-estimating the total number of
editors WP has,
over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance.
Where'd you get that figure from anyway?
This list:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004659.html
"Apparently a poll was done at Wikimania and 2/3 of people were
against it and 1/3 said they'd leave. So yeah, there's one good
argument not to have ads, I guess. I just can't figure out what any of
the other ones are."
(I've only just noticed it was posted by Anthony DiPierro, who may or
may not be a primary source - was he at Wikimania?)
- d.