[Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

[Milos Rancic]

It seems that it is not about some spammer, but about Google. When you
click on that add, you are not getting "some spammer", but Google list
of sites *related* to Wikipedia.

On 8/30/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Devouard
> Sent: 30 August 2007 21:25
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> 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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