--- Dori <slowpoke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but when you enter into a legal contract,
it's not just you that
we have to worry about, it's the other party as well. I really don't
think we'll be getting much revenue from this deal to justify the
risk, and in general I don't think in the *long term* relying on
advertising will keep Wikipedia afloat.
Er. Not that we'd ever do this unless *absolutely* necessary to keep us
online,
but do you have *any* idea how much advertising revenue would be brought
in by
an Internet top 50 website? At least a couple hundred thousand dollars a
month
for something relatively unobtrusive like Google Ads.
It boggles my mind that this isn't being done. Seems to me like a totally
irrational fear that Wikimedia would somehow start catering to the
advertisers. It's almost as though Wikipedians are afraid of money or
something.