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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 17/03/2008, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Brian 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 :)
>
>
> Yes, and facebook users are not representative of the people we care
>  about (i.e. everyone) in some other important ways too... they tend to
>  be college kids in the US.

It might be worth paying for a professional polling company to do a
proper survey - I'm not sure what those kind of things cost, but I'm
sure the information would be very enlightening.