On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:10:26 +0200, Kurt Jansson jansson@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.