[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?

[Florence Devouard]

GDonato wrote:
> Jason Calacanis wrote:
>> With the risk of sounding like a broken record... :-) Mozilla announced
>> (confirmed) they are making over $50M a year from their search box while
>> Wikipedia struggles over fund raising on a regular basis.
>>
>> Some thoughts:
>>
>> 1. Wikipedia would make $100M+ if they put on Google Adsense on every
>> page--easily.
>> 2. Wikipedia could let users choose to turn ads on or off.
>> 3. Wikipedia would make at least 20M if Wikipedia used Google Adsense for
>> just search (which, ironically is what many wikipedia folks do anyway...
>> search google for site:wikipedia.com).
>> 4. If Wikipedia folks were concerned about being beholden to just Google we
>> could setup a system to rotate ads from Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. randomly
>> (text ads of course).
>> 5. If folks are concerned about the content of ads it is easy enough to
>> block certain advertisers.
>>
>> More here:
>> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/10/beyond_sustainability.html
>>
>> Anyway, if folks from the foundation ever want help on these things I'm
>> available to consult for free and have setup deals like these (i.e. between
>> Netscape/AOL/Weblogs, Inc. and Google)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Best j
> 
> Personally, I really dislike the idea of any advertising on Wikimedia. 
> This makes a fool of [[WP:NPOV]], [[WP:COI]] and related policies and 
> guidelines. It should only be considered if things get extremely 
> desperate. The advert-free site is refreshing and welcoming and that is 
> something we should strive to keep, pretty much at all costs.
> 
> 
> GDonato

100% in agreement with you. Ant