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

[Chad]

Take it as a suggestion for future surveys then.

-Chad

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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