[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sat Dec 31 17:12:36 UTC 2011


David Gerard wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 12:01, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Full agreement with geni here. Blinking banners are against the spirit of
>> the Wikipedia Manual of Style. If this is not clear in the banner
>> guidelines then this needs to be made explicit.
> 
> Indeed. Inspiring people to install AdBlock may not be the best of ideas?

Most ad blocking software (including AdBlock) treats self-promotional ads
(and particularly calls for site fundraising) differently than typical,
commercial banner ads. It's possible to manually filter the fundraising
banners with AdBlock and similar products, though.

More info here: 
https://easylist.adblockplus.org/blog/2010/11/16/wikimedia-fundraising-banne
rs

MZMcBride





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