[Foundation-l] Wikipedia growth since February 2004 greatly slowed - uh, no

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

O.k., good!  That makes sense.  :-)

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> --- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > > I won't be surprised if Google comes to us in a years time trying to
> > > push us into having Google ads.
> > 
> > You seem to be hinting with the word "push" that they would compromise
> > their editorial integrity in exchange for the opportunity to show ads.
> > I think that is extraordinarily unlikely.  They are good people.
> 
> No, that is not what I meant at all. I was hinting that they would like to have
> us as a partner so they could generate more ad revenue. There is nothing wrong
> with that, BTW. It would just be a measure of how much traffic we have. Many
> advertisers will see us as a very tempting target in a years time. 
> 
> That's all.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
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