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

[Geoffrey Plourde]

What if the Foundation created a skin that users could opt into and tagged it with adsense? That would actually be a acceptable compromise.



----- Original Message ----
From: Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:57:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

As long as user Foo is the one collecting the ad revenue, and user Bar is
using user Foo's script and user Bar is not engaging in click fraud I don't
see the problem. Plus, there are lots of advertisers besides Google. I'm
sure there is a completely legitimate way to do it.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> > <snip>
>
> 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.
> >
>
> If you are using a script to add ads to your own Wikipedia skin, and then
> clicking on those ads yourself, you would be violating the terms of
> service
> of systems like Google Adsense.
>
> To avoid fraud, one of the underlying requirements of all online
> advertising
> systems is that the person or entity placing ads on a website must be
> different from the person clicking on the ads.
>
> -Robert Rohde
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