On 23/04/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I'm not opposed to having opt-out advertising on wikipedia.org, but I don't really understand why we would want to dilute our url structure and pagerank on *every* term by creating a weird commercial non-fork.
What use is pagerank to us?
If people are concerned about making too much money (a legitimate concern I think) then just put ads on some pages, or throttle the ads with ads for non-profits, or with nothing. Google does this already now, I'm sure they would be willing to work with us.
If they aren't, Overture will. Or MSN ads.
This issue is in addition to what Erik brings up, do we really want a distinction between the editable and not editable? Why? "The encyclopedia that anyone can edit, right after you navigate to a very similiar but not exact url"?
Stable versions would create much the same thing, though.
- d.