[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Brian McNeil]

If Wikipedia really did need to use advertising to bring in enough revenue
this would be one of the least damaging places to have it.

However, this may seriously conflict with the privacy policy as a referrer
would be given and Google could gather data on who searched for what on the
Wikipedia internal search pages. I strongly suspect this aspect of that
particular "pact with the devil" is what many, many Wikipedians would
strongly object to.


Brian McNeil

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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

AdSense rules...? Google would bend over backwards to display ads on that
page.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > I have to be honest about one thing related to this topic. I
> > have always thought it would be harmless to include Google ads
> > on Wikipedia's internal search engine.
>
> As far as I have understood Google Ads, Google only allows them to
> be posted on content pages (where the search engine can determine
> the content, and adjust the ads) and not on search result pages.
>
> This is the technical side of the problem.  Then there is the huge
> political/ideological resistance within the Wikipedia community.
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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