On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.comwrote:
Hello,
Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust.
They also create confusion. Not long ago I lent my computer to a 15 year-old family friend who did not have Internet access at home and who wanted to search online for a Summer job. Watching him, it was clear that he couldn't tell the difference between the ads and the real job listings. He followed many links to scam websites. Our 400 million users include a lot of people like him who are new to the web.
Another note on ads: We do actually run ads once a year -- for ourself. If "leaving money on the table" was something the Wikimedia movement cared about, we could run donation requests all year long. My guess is we'd make at least close to what Google ads would pay. Thankfully, not too many people are worried how much money the table gets to keep.
Zack
Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA
Kind regards Ziko
2010/11/5 Cool Hand Luke User.CoolHandLuke@gmail.com:
This was manifestly not a "fatal" idea. In fact, it appears they
concluded
that *operating on donations *would be fatal. Moral of the story:
Wikipedia
is different.
Considering how much spam we receive, and how long some of it persists, I sometimes wonder if we haven't miscalculated the costs and benefits. For example, WMF could be getting something like $30 per-click on ads in articles like Mesothelioma. Ad money instead goes to enterprising
spammers
who sometimes succeed in placing their links in high-traffic or high
value
articles.
Frank
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.T...
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