[Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentially increasing costs)
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 12:59:17 UTC 2005
Dan Grey wrote:
>On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
This list:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004659.html
"Apparently a poll was done at Wikimania and 2/3 of people were
against it and 1/3 said they'd leave. So yeah, there's one good
argument not to have ads, I guess. I just can't figure out what any of
the other ones are."
(I've only just noticed it was posted by Anthony DiPierro, who may or
may not be a primary source - was he at Wikimania?)
- d.
More information about the foundation-l
mailing list