Again, to be clear, this has nothing to do with AOL or Jason Calacanis' idea of slapping banner ads on Wikipedia.
This might not be a bad time for people to start mulling that over... :)
You mean, for people to start mulling over the idea of slapping banner ads on Wikipedia?
I would expect a major, major disaster. Probably a huge fork. And unlike the one or two forks I've threatened in the past, this one would probably _not_ be initiated by myself, given the fact that I'm not extremely active anymore (I'm doing more work on reconsidering definitions for urbandictionary -- it's much clearer when something is crap there than it is on Wikipedia because they have clear guidelines and you can delete stuff or keep it without having to worry about improving existing content, though I do regret their lack of non-English versions and believe they would benefit from a more wiki-like structure).
But yeah, do we not remember Enciclopedia Libre? That happened just because people were thinking about maybe possibly sometime in the future eventually having banner ads, IIRC. To actually implement them... wow... yeah.
But if it's a sacrifice you ("we") are willing to make in the name of the almighty dollar (even if you're going to use it for good rather than evil), well then, whatever floats your ("our") boat.
Mark
On 06/11/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Steve wrote:
Liberatory 100M.
A lot of good ideas of stuff we want were collected. There is no further news at this time, but remember... this is not about a donation, but someone trying to think of sustainable business models around doing content liberation in conjunction with Wikipedia... it is one thing to imagine someone deciding to donate that much money to the movement, but another thing altogether to think about someone doing something sustainable (i.e. where they can recoup their investment).
Again, to be clear, this has nothing to do with AOL or Jason Calacanis' idea of slapping banner ads on Wikipedia.
This might not be a bad time for people to start mulling that over... :)
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