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

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 10/27/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan Grey wrote:
> >On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com <http://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.

 Nope, I read it somewhere on meta (can't remember where and can't check
right now), so it's merely rumor at this point (which is why I said
"Apparently").