I don't know why they would think that. I mean, we obviously already have the tech to insert advertisements ... and do; at least ads for the fundraiser.
John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is gearing up to run ads on content pages.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant people.
More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition only is able to contact existing editors).
However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket. -Liam
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On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro faigos@gmail.com wrote:
How about NBA players?
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