[Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

[Brian McNeil]

The issue here can't really be progressed when all that is being provided is
a graphic of the ad banner. If people are inappropriately using the
Wikipedia name I have no doubt a nice letter will get Google to pull their
adverts - but you can't do that if you don't know what is being advertised.


Brian.

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Devouard
Sent: 30 August 2007 21:25
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

Sorry, but I really do not understand what you are talking about. Where 
would that be ?

Ant

Milos Rancic wrote:
> Ah, sorry :) Yes, "buy", not "by"...
> 
> On 8/30/07, Mike R <tacodeposit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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