[WikiEN-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Chris Howie]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM, jossi fresco <jossif at gmail.com> wrote:
> In regard to today's article on the Los Angeles Times about Wikipedia and
>  funding, I am sure that this has been discussed in the past, but it is not
>  about time we look into this dispassionately?
>
>  Would it really be the "end of Wikipedia" to have a "Sponsored links"
>  section as a subsection of the "External links" section on articles in which
>  two or three Google ad words could be placed?

If this happens at all (and I pray it never does) it should not be in
the article content itself; it should be in the sidebar or somewhere
that doesn't require us to add the section to articles and require
mirrors and forks to clean up after us.

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Chris Howie
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