[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Actually has anyone started straw polls yet? 



----- Original Message ----
From: Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:53:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

Chad wrote:
> Let's assume projects can opt-out, and this must be approved
> by the Board (as they are ultimately responsible for fiscal
> matters). For the sake of arguments, let's pretend enwiki came
> to a fairly clear consensus that they wished to opt-out of WMF
> ads. Wouldn't this basically kill the entire ads cash-cow right
> there?
> 
> Now, continuing this scenario, I can imagine the Board would
> probably reject an opt-out from the largest project. This begs
> the question: does the Foundation see all projects in an
> equal light?
> 
> -Chad


That's an excellent question !

I am tempted to return it back first.

If all the languages were voting independently from one another, for 
opt-in or opt-out... how would you feel if en.wiki would vote for "no 
ads", whilst ja.wiki vote for "yes" ?
Would you rather consider the global project, or would you be willing to 
accept diversity ? Should it be a global decision, or a local one ?

I guess that a global decision would make the issue a "core principle"
whilst a local decision would make the advertisement issue a "mild 
principle".

ant


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