[Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

[Arlen Beiler]

For one thing, we have always been proud of how Wikipedia and its sister
sites have been ad-free. Why don't we get those half-breeds with their ads
and everything to do the revenue making? I mean, of course, Wikia. Having
ads on Wikipedia (or anywhere else) would be awful.

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> > Hoi,
> > As the "A" word has been mentioned again as is tradition,  I want us to
> > talk
> > instead about how we can advertise / market our strategy, I want us to
> > discuss how this helps us to reach out. How we can realise the goals that
> > we
> > so beautifully formulated in our strategy..
> >
> > To start it off, I have blogged some of my sentiments.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> >
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/11/annual-wikipedia-argument-about.html
>
> Nice sentiments, but you don't address the question of why someone else
> needs the potential advertising revenue more than we do. Google does many
> good things, including providing substantial support to Wikipedia, but
> what good does money in the pockets of their shareholders do us?
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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