On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:44, Michael Snow wrote:
However, in terms of financial planning, employee salaries are a separate consideration from hardware, and not something we can address through periodic fundraising drives. Salaries are an ongoing cost, and in order to have employees we need to develop a revenue stream that can support these costs. The revenue can be from general public donations or some other source (grants?), but it must be reasonably reliable.
what about _limited_ ads? With limited I mean that individual wikipedias (en, de, fr,...) can decide on their own if they want to increase Wikipedias revenue stream or not, e.g. if "es" doesn't want ads no ads on their pages will be shown. An additional option would be showing ads to anonymous viewers only or vice versa to logged in users only, as far as they agree with that. Me for example wouldn't mind if I see some ads if I know that this increases Wikipedias revenue stream a bit.
I know I am opening Pandora's box, but if we need some constant revenue stream then this is something we should at least think about. As long as there is an easy way to remove ads, e.g. logged in users can switch ads off (or on) by changing their preference entries, I would found it an acceptable solution.
best regards, Marco