It seems that it is not about some spammer, but about Google. When you click on that add, you are not getting "some spammer", but Google list of sites *related* to Wikipedia.
On 8/30/07, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
The issue here can't really be progressed when all that is being provided is a graphic of the ad banner. If people are inappropriately using the Wikipedia name I have no doubt a nice letter will get Google to pull their adverts - but you can't do that if you don't know what is being advertised.
Brian.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence Devouard Sent: 30 August 2007 21:25 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?
Sorry, but I really do not understand what you are talking about. Where would that be ?
Ant
Milos Rancic wrote:
Ah, sorry :) Yes, "buy", not "by"...
On 8/30/07, Mike R tacodeposit@gmail.com wrote:
Correcting spelling of "buy" in case anyone else was as confused as I
was.
On 8/30/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
So, let's test a little bit Google's tolerance ;) (my site is on Google: http://www.millosh.org/by_wikipedia.png)
The point is that, as you see, inside of the add ons Google has commercial "By Wikipedia". Even the most of problems related to Google's financing Wikimedia are not on the Google's side, I think that Google should give money for promoting non-Wikimedia sites for money with the phrase "By Wikipedia".
On 8/30/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
No Wikimedia project is currently ad-supported, Google or otherwise. I believe the stance is 'never say never', but I would think the introduction of ads would be extremely unlikely and similarly unpopular. Hope this helps.
On 8/30/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I hope that a small image will pass the list.
So, the question is: Does WMF have some money from such kind of Google commercials?
-- Gary Kirk
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