[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[Brian]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might also find the following instructive:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:User_Noads-alt&limit=500&from=0
>

Yes actually, I'm curious.

wget -qO- '
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:User_Noads-alt&limit=50000&from=0'
> | grep '/wiki/User:' | wc -l


792
And according to Special:Statistics, there are 6,702,366 registered users.
And there are billions that constitute our readership. Does 792/6,702,366
constitute a consensus to you? What about 792/billions? The loudest voices,
who happen to love saying "if you run ads I'm forking the project to build a
BETTER Wikipedia that doesn't show ads" do not constitute a consensus. You
have to run a large, well designed survey to get a representative sample.