[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[effe iets anders]

Ah, here the big question comes up :) What should be determining our choice
for ads or not... Just a few options:

1) Financial trouble
2) Our core principles
3) Our values
4) Because the community favors it over donations
5) Because the visitors favor it over donations

Of course there are many more, but my stake here is actually that *first* we
should discuss 1), 2) and 3), probably too 4) and then we go to 5). If there
are financial trouble, there is little choice, and we'll *have* to, whether
we like or not. If there are no trouble, but the usual shoestring, then we
should see what our core principles and values have to say about it.
Finally, I think that in this case, the opinion of the community is at least
as important as the opinion of the visitors.

I think both opinions will be measured in the UNU research? And as there
seem to be no threatening financial problems right now, 2) and 3) are left
in the open :)

BR, Lodewijk

2008/3/18, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton op gmail.com>:
>
> On 17/03/2008, Jimmy Wales <jwales op 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.
>
>
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