[Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentiallyincreasing costs)

[Poe, Marshall]

Could someone, just for the benefit of this (relative) outsider and
journalist, explain what the basic objections are to AdSense type ads on
Wikipedia? I know you'll be speaking for yourself and not the community,
and will read the explanations accordingly.

Best, MP


Marshall Poe, Ph.D.
The Atlantic Monthly
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mpoe at theatlantic.com
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From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Grey
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:41 AM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our
exponentiallyincreasing costs)

On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The relatively small number of editors who will throw a hissy-fit off

> >won't be missed - new editors arrive all the time, and many 
> >eventually crawl back after a public foot-stomping session anyway.
>
>
> A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently dedicated to Wikipedia

> to spend  their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005, 
> wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to me.
> Maybe it does to you.

I think you're under-estimating the total number of editors WP has,
over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance.

Where'd you get that figure from anyway?


Dan
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