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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Sorry but it is not obvious to me ... Given that Jimmy indicated that it is
just a first time to test the waters, it is already obvious that it is not a
"scientific" method. So I do not understand nor agree with your point.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

> 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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