[Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 19:44:04 UTC 2007


It was on http://en.qweki.com/Special:Recentchanges

This time it is at the right side... However, I am sure that any add
like this may be found on any page with key words "Wikipedia" or
"Special:Recentchanges" with the MediaWiki structure.

I uploaded my screenshot on Meta
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Buy_wikipedia_II_large.png).
"Ads by Google" at the right.

There are at least two problems:
- Buy Wikipedia -- Wikipedia is on sale?
- If we assume that it is about the content, then trade mark fee
should be paid by Google.

On 8/30/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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