I don't think the idea was to charge generally for a subscription, but rather to include ads.
However, unlike most mirrors, it would hopefully make it quite clear that it was a MIRROR and that it was possible to view the content without ads if one so desires.
Provided that the ads are not popups, and provided I can choose whether or not I get flash ads (I hate the damned things), I would be willing to do all of my Wikipedia browsing that way because I would be happy to give that much-needed boost to WMF.
Mark
On 09/04/06, Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
Good idea, or bad idea?
It presupposes that users of real-time WM content would pay for the privilege given the chance; as far as I can tell, that assumption is incorrect in the majority of cases.
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