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

[David Gerard]

On 24/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/10/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> > We need an open and sensible discussion about adverts, but I suspect this
> > won't be happening. It's not upto the users now, it's solely upto the
> board
> > and if they want to try and run Wikipedia on donations, it's their
> > prerogative.

> Nothing is solely up to the foundation. Plenty of people have made it
> clear they would leave/fork if adverts were added to Wikipedia. If the
> foundation wants to continue to have projects to host, they need to
> listen to what their users want. They understand this, I think it very
> odd that so many users seem not to.


It is also worth noting that this has happened already - a few years
ago pretty much the whole Spanish Wikipedia just got up and left
because the notion of ads was even floated (though this may have been
just a last straw) - so caution is well advised.


- d.