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

[David Gerard]

On 12/03/2008, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

>  As a community member, I *want* to be asked about content-related
>  matters (like licenses are; for which I am *not* asked);


Really? Commons community worries about the CC 3.0 licenses actually
got CC to issue a clarified version in specific response to those
concerns; and the Foundation certainly wasn't going to try to force
Commons to accept or not accept a given license version.


> but I really
>  don't care how WMF would raise money while it is reasonable and
>  according to some basic ethics (don't take willingly money from weapon
>  traders, militaries, terrorists...). And even Wikia-like ads are
>  reasonable enough.


I wouldn't mind ads either, personally, and we could certainly do with
the money. But I fear a lot of the community just getting up and
*leaving* if we did put ads on.

I think (I have no data) that the general public would still love us,
but they'd sigh in disappointment. (So they should give us more money
then ;-p )


- d.