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.
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Devouard
Sent: 30 August 2007 21:25
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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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Correcting spelling of "buy" in case anyone else was as confused as I
was.
>
> On 8/30/07, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)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(a)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(a)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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