[Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

Mike R tacodeposit at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 16:26:32 UTC 2007


Correcting spelling of "buy" in case anyone else was as confused as I was.

On 8/30/07, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, let's test a little bit Google's tolerance ;) (my site is on
> Google: http://www.millosh.org/by_wikipedia.png)
>
> The point is that, as you see, inside of the add ons Google has
> commercial "By Wikipedia". Even the most of problems related to
> Google's financing Wikimedia are not on the Google's side, I think
> that Google should give money for promoting non-Wikimedia sites for
> money with the phrase "By Wikipedia".
>
> On 8/30/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No Wikimedia project is currently ad-supported, Google or otherwise. I
> > believe the stance is 'never say never', but I would think the
> > introduction of ads would be extremely unlikely and similarly
> > unpopular.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I hope that a small image will pass the list.
> > >
> > > So, the question is: Does WMF have some money from such kind of Google
> > > commercials?
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gary Kirk
> >
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