Could someone, just for the benefit of this (relative) outsider and journalist, explain what the basic objections are to AdSense type ads on Wikipedia? I know you'll be speaking for yourself and not the community, and will read the explanations accordingly.
Best, MP
Marshall Poe, Ph.D. The Atlantic Monthly 600 New Hampshire Ave. NW Washington, DC 20037 202-266-6511 mpoe@theatlantic.com -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Grey Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:41 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentiallyincreasing costs)
On 27/10/05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The relatively small number of editors who will throw a hissy-fit off
won't be missed - new editors arrive all the time, and many eventually crawl back after a public foot-stomping session anyway.
A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently dedicated to Wikipedia
to spend their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005, wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to me. Maybe it does to you.
I think you're under-estimating the total number of editors WP has, over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance.
Where'd you get that figure from anyway?
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