I suspect that the ad in question is a freebie, donated through Google's giveaway to nonprofits. If so there is a point person at wmf (maybe in the advancement team?) Who would know for sure.
Philippe
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
I just googled "wikipedia" again and that ad is still coming up. (I’m in Australia.) When you click the link in the ad it takes you (via 3 or 4 redirects) to wikipedia.org with the word "paid" in the search field. [1] When you click the Google maps link below the ad text it, strangely, takes you to the location of a suburban Kmart store. I'm finding it harder to believe this is sanctioned by WMF. Anyway, I’d appreciate it if someone from the WMF could chime in on this.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 9:48 pm, Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
"🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil people, for evil
people 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥" + a winking Baphomet as logo
I think we should change this to our slogan just for April 1.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
"🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil people, for evil people 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥" + a winking Baphomet as logo
I find close to pointless derailing any discussion into a
incircumstantial
series of tirades.
Vito
2018-04-15 16:21 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com:
Not just English Wikipedia. All of the projects are hostile to
"outsiders"
Those not in English might even be worse for several reasons
Enviado desde mi LG de Telcel
------ Original message------ From: Robert Fernandez Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 9:17 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Cc: Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies, organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate and relevant claim these days.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com
wrote:
I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad
linking
to
wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia.
We
used
to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more
honest
than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of
reliability
and
oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the
discussion
about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone
else
uncomfortabe with this?
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