Poor, Edmund W wrote:

If Yahoo feels grateful for the increased traffic, and starts making anonymous donations to WikiMedia, you're not going to tear up the checks, are you?

No, of course not. Indeed, I would encourage any company or person who uses our content, or finds it beneficial in any way, to make a contribution that they feel is appropriate.

It's just that accepting money in exchange for traffic sent, in some kind of 'pay per click' deal, comes far too uncomfortably close to advertising. We provide those links as a service to our end users.

--Jimbo