[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[White Cat]

If we start having adds, will long term editors have a salary? After all we
would have more money than what we would know what to do with?

   - White Cat

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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