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

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Mon Mar 17 14:40:27 UTC 2008


Asking if advertisements should be shown on Wikipedia on a website that is
currently showing them an advertisement is obviously not a good design
methodology :)

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> 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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