[WikiEN-l] Google ads

[Dori]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:10:26 +0200, Kurt Jansson <jansson at gmx.net> wrote:
> Jack Lynch schrieb:
> 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump#Opt-in_Google-ads.3F
> >
> > it would seem we have concensus?
> 
> The ability to tell journalists "Wikipedia is completly free of advertising" is
> worth more than a few cents from Google ads, IMHO. With ads, even if opt-in, we
> are much less of a bird of paradise in the web's top 1000. And there might also
> be a negative psychological effect on the donors.

I also agree with that

> If we once *really* need the money we should use opt-out, but I hope this will
> never happen.

Opt-out is even worse.

If people want to support Wikipedia by looking at ads, I would propose
a Wikimedia-sponsored mirror with ads, while the main Wikipedia is
left pristine. Don't know how effective this would be though.

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