[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

I agree. Pop up ads would be better than inline ads.



----- Original Message ----
From: White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:47:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Advertisements?

You kinda got me concerned when you said "pops up" but then I read the rest
of the sentence. It also got me thinking.

Pop-up ads would be better than in-line adds. Granted more annoying but
would be less of a compromise from NPOV. Basicaly we would cover the screen
with the ford logo rather than put the ford logo in the middle of the page.

  - White Cat

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Nathan wrote:
> > Can you comment on in what circumstances or at what point the Board
> would
> > consider a step like that?
>
> Oh, I have no idea.
>
> This question pops up in the community from time to time, and the press
> loves the question.
>
> One of the concerns I have about this whole issue is that it can be such
> a "third rail" to even discuss it or look into it.  I think that's
> unfortunate.  My longtime position is that we should really make sure we
> have a very good idea of how much money we are turning down before we
> turn it down.  (Including various variants such as one-click permanent
> opt-out, opt-in, search page only, approval by community on a per-ad
> basis only, etc.)
>
> My own sense of things is that even after we look (together, as a
> community) at all those options (calmly, rationally, and without people
> going into hysterics that the discussion is even happening), we will
> still turn down ads.  But we will then be doing so in a responsible
> adult manner, rather than a knee-jerk manner.
>
> But, this is just the opinion of one community member / board member.
>
> --Jimbo
>
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