[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[David Goodman]

I'm as much concerned about the pernicious effect of advertisements on
the unregistered users, the people who just come to read wikipedia.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
>  > On the subject of ads, I have a question. Given that all registered users can
>  > edit their WP stylesheet to suit their needs, /if/ ads were added, what's to
>  > keep the registered users from putting something like .ads {display: none;}
>  > to make sure they saw nothing? And by that extension, what's to keep
>  > a project from adding that to their local mediawiki's stylesheet? I would
>  > assume a policy would exist to prohibit the latter.
>  >
>  > Just some food for thought.
>  To be grammatically accurate your premise should read "Given that all
>  registered users_ may _edit their WP stylesheet..." That would clarify
>  that the permission is active without implying an equivalent degree of
>  skill.  In reality, only a limited segment of the community _can_ edit
>  these arcane structures.
>
>  Ec
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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