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

[Ray Saintonge]

Judson Dunn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:20 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  It does *wonders* for our public relations being the top-10 site which
>>  isn't plastered with ads. Wikipedia gets a LOT of slack for that -
>>  highly imperfect, but a non-profit volunteer project that continues to
>>  try hard. I fervently hope we can afford to continue this way.
>>     
> Agreed, there are a lot of costs I think the Foundation could cut
> before having to do something so drastic. Not that I think they
> *should* be cut if we have the money, which right now I think we do.
> But if we can't run the servers, I don't think we should be funding
> Wikimania at all, much less in exotic locations.
The location of Wikimania can't help but be exotic to the vast majority 
of Wikipedians.  Even if it's limited top only Europe and North America 
one of those will be exotic to the other as well as to residents of all 
the other continents.

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