[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

[Geoffrey Plourde]

I am thinking of having the link to poll included in one of those announcements you see on En.wp, as well as the Village pump, AN, and the community portal. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:08:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

Who do you propose that we poll? I have suggested that we poll the visitors
to Special:Search, as they are the folks who will actually be looking at the
advertisements. That poll has definitely not occured. I think it's clear
what will happen if you seek out active contributors to Wikipedia. Those
with the loudest voices will drown out those who were unaware of the "poll,"
as demonstrated here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Numbers_of_users_for_and_against_ads_on_the_English_Wikipedia
.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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