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

[Brian]

Allowing folks to opt-in to seeing adverts on Special:Search or anywhere is
not a viable soln IMO. It would earn a very, very small amount of money.
However, if someone wants to set up such an opt-in scheme (e.g.,
importScript('User:Foo/show_me_adverts.js')) and then donate the money
earned to the Foundation, I don't think you need anyone's permission.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> wrote:
> > Edoardo Marascalchi wrote:
> >  > what about enabling every single user to choose to have ads or not
> just
> >  > modifying the monobook.js to made visible a div block?
> >  >
> >  Not that I support ads, but such an option would have to be strictly
> opt
> >  in.  Otherwise it would leave the rest of us who have not adopted
> >  monobook, or who are in the vast majority with no clue about editing
> >  monobook.js with no options.
>
> A gadget, selectable in your preferences page would do the trick
> nicely. Nobody would have to edit any javascript, everybody could opt
> in if they wanted to (or else have ads on by default, and give people
> a gadget to opt out). Either way, it's easier then editing javascript
> directly, and far more universal.
>
> --andrew Whitworth
>
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