I haven't fallowed the discussion so I might be repeating an old idea,
if so just ignore my comment. In any case this is an old idea, this is
a business model you have probably seen before if you are familiar with
The Hunger Site (
thehungersite.com) and The Million Dollar Homepage
(
milliondollarhomepage.com). I was thinking we could have a button on
the fundraising-page that people would be asked to click if they wanted
to support Wikimedia (this is not advertising). Clicking that button
would send you to a side project of the Foundation (hopefully with a
special domain name) which would essentially be a page full of ads like
the Million Dollar Homepage. So in this way we do not advertise on
Wikipedia but instead offer people who whish to support the Foundation
to support us in this way (and in this way make use of our traffic).
- F.B. Dýrfjörð