[Foundation-l] Advertisements ?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I discuss less and least resourced languages often with people, one of the
arguments used against such a language is that it has no economic value.
What is often used to prove it is that Google does not support such
languages and does not sell advertisements in those languages. So in a way,
for many languages it is considered desirable to have advertisements.

So to answer Anthere, there are plenty people who read Russian and can deal
with Russian companies. the question should be who will read Northern Sotho
or Piedmontese for us and deal with advertisements in those languages.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>
wrote:

> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>  > I take no sides in this discussion, but I would just like to note
> that this last bit is not really true.  In the unlikely event that the
> Foundation decided to take advertising in some limited fashion on the
> search results page or similar (and I should note that this is an
> interesting discussion in the community, but not something the board is
> actively interested in or considering at all) it would be quite simple
> to accept only pre-approved ads, and to mark them quite clearly as not
> part of the content, etc.
>  >
>  > There are grave and legitimate concerns about what accepting
> advertising would do to the perception of neutrality of Wikipedia, but
> it is worth noting that worst case scenarios are easily avoidable.
>
> Hmmm. Who would deal with the advertisements in Russian language from
> Russian companies ?
>
> Ant
>
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