[Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

[Fred Bauder]

> An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of
> wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product
> visually appealing, and used the generated money from the
> advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps
>
> It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be
> financed by advertisement on such a
> site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate
> from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more
> frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again
> make therir product more attractive, and so on
>
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>

Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of
out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce
periodic "polished" editions.

Fred