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Hi,
Le Friday 21 November 2003 17:45, Jimmy Wales a écrit :
Chuck Smith wrote:
I was thinking the other day that the goals of Wikipedia are in line with those of Unesco and I was wondering if we could somehow try to become officially connected with Unesco to gain a better reputation.
I like this idea, like the project trying to enlist free software as Unesco world heritage.
I know people are going to yell at me, but I think Google AdSense would produce an incredible amount of money for the project. We could show them to anonymous users and people who log in could turn them off if they wanted. Well anyway, it's just a suggestion, don't bite my head off.
I know that not many people share my curious political views, but to me, it's much worse to seek money from governments, i.e. to ask them to take money by force from others, than it is to accept advertising money.
Indeed. ;o) This one I don't like very much. For me getting money from Unesco or governments is not exactly the same thing. And from big private companies is not better than from governments.
However, it is not clear to me that ads would produce "an incredible amount of money". I should look at the traffic and make an estimate, just so we have some awareness of what we're giving up.
--Jimbo
Yann
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