Rob wrote:
It was a photo of a cup of coffee. It was a mistake
that was quickly
acknowledged and corrected. Let's keep things in perspective, please.
Agreed. I'd much rather see focus put on Liam's e-mail about the general
fund-raising problem, the current solution to which is deploying overly
large advertisements on Wikipedia in a few rich countries for several
weeks. If we're willing to donate the entire screen space to an ad for the
Wikimedia Foundation, it probably makes sense to at least reconsider
whether a smaller, less obtrusive paid ad for a company or organization
would be better. I imagine many companies and organizations would be
willing to pay a premium for a much smaller ad slot, given Wikipedia's
level of traffic and the limited supply of ad space that we'd likely be
willing to sell. At what point is having horribly large and intrusive ads
worse than having much smaller and faster paid ad campaigns?
MZMcBride