[Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I am sure you did not study the breakdown of the cost properly. This is me
assuming good faith.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 4 December 2010 23:09, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from
> >> payed ads. It is not even on Wikimedia servers.
> >
> > I don't think that any ads-supported 1:1 content mirror (I don't see much
> added value atm, we have some kind of book source support already) is any
> good opportunity to get money, sorry.
> > Why would users want to see stale ads supported version, when there's
> no-ads version with fresh one. The amount of how much we show our
> fundraising banners is just thing of organizational efficiency and
> ambitions.
> >
> > If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower
> profile, right? :)
> > I somehow want us to think about our users and service as primary
> objective, not just organizational issues.
> >
> > Domas
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> When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for
> salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think.
>
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