Michael Becker wrote:
An interesting way to offer advertising, would be to
offer to let people
sponsor pages. This is done with Highways, (i.e. This section of
highway sponsored by such and such). I think many users would like this
idea, and would sponsor pages they contributed heavily to, and you could
offer packages for "advertisers" outside of the project like mentioned
above, (using some sort of algorithm to figure out what pages are
relevant) and then offer a price per page type thing.
sounds like the thin edge of the wedge to me.
For anything like this to be considered seriously we would first need a
responsible discussion of Wikipedia finances, and the development of a
business plan.
All ( :-) !) our present sources of funding are opposed to advertising.
Co-incidentally, I happen to agree with that position, so I'm not about
to complain against my own interests.
Ec