[WikiEN-l] FW: Regarding Advertising on Wikipedia

[Brion Vibber]

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Je Dimanĉo 01 Junio 2003 11:14, Daniel Ehrenberg skribis:
> Why does everyone oppose advertizing? I it's descrete enough, it's
> not intrusive and doesn't lower our credibility.

See, Dan, there *is* no such advertising. If it were sufficiently 
discreet, unobtrusive, and non-credibility-lowering to not send half 
our contributors away in disgust, advertisers wouldn't be willing to 
pay because no one would be able to see it.

You may not remember as it was before your time, but a year or so ago 
all but one or two of the Spanish Wikipedia contributors revolted and 
left to build the Enciclopedia Libre because Jimbo was _considering_ 
putting small, tasteful, textual ad banners on the English Wikipedia 
only, which anyone would be able to disable by logging in and setting 
their preferences to "no ads".

So we're a little touchy on the subject. :)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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