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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I wonder if the question or the situation is loaded ?? At issues is that
some have been EXTREMELY loud in their dismissal of any type of
advertisement drowning out the arguments in favour of advertisements.. It
has always been known that many want to do good and see advertisements as a
means to an end. The dismissal of "the poor children in Africa" is imho as
problematic as the dismissal of adverts because of personal convictions.

The question that should be asked when you talk about Africa, why and how
are you going to spend money and make a difference. Spending money is easy
enough, the point is that it has to be done in a way that is line with our
core aims, abilities and activities.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting poll, though on advertising the question is completely
> loaded (to the point of being unusable IMHO).
>
> Helping African kids
> Improving site speed
> improving content
> all of the above, YES
> No, none of these things are worth it.
>
> Look at the question. It's clearly guiding users towards one of the
> first 4 answers, with the "YES" qualifier to all of the above. And
> also, it's discouraging to have an answer saying "No, african kids
> aren't worth it", implying one should feel guilt for selecting that
> answer.
>
> I love the idea for facebook polls,  but I think the questions need to
> be a little better written before they can be useful to us.
>
> -Dan
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> >
> > I was just reviewing this thread and it motivated me to hurry up and
> > finish a presentation that I plan to make at the upcoming board
> > meeting.
> >
> > I was curious to know whether Facebook users understand that Wikipedia
> > is a charity, and what they think about putting advertising in
> > Wikipedia.  So I ran a couple of polls on Facebook (this doesn't cost
> > much, so I thought I would wing it)...
> >
> > The results are interesting but very preliminary, and probably point
> > the
> > way towards a need to do more research than anything else.
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook_polls_for_Wikimedia.pdf
> >
> >
> >
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