Actually, Wikipedia articles link to a lot of pages that have adverts. So what. :-) Kind regards Ziko
2010/11/6 Arlen Beiler arlenbee@gmail.com:
I don't think I could stand it if we picked up advertising. I hate the way wikia looks, and therefore have an aversion to contributing in any way to its progress. Can you imagine! We actually link to Wikia sites and give them traffic (though I guess that is better than filling up wikibooks and wikipedia with useless junk)! Wikia is like the no good jerk up the street. Imagine us turning to ads after all these years! I am sure it could be a revenue source for some, but we are different, we are better. We create the best family of websites in the world, let's not mar them with ads. You know, wikia should sell itself to the Wikimedia Foundation so that Wikimedia would get the money. Then too, I guess the board members need some way to make money. What actually might be a better idea, would be for wikia to pay the board, since it is a for profit company. Or am I missing the point entirely? I read what that Greg Kohs said about it, and while I agree that it did sound like a conflict of interest, I don't know how much of this is proper or not. Anyway, those are my useless ramblings, so bye.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello,
Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust. Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about:
After the first few minutes it turns into a long drawn out infomercial supporting US "campaign finance reform".
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