Rob wrote:
It was a photo of a cup of coffee. It was a mistake that was quickly acknowledged and corrected. Let's keep things in perspective, please.
Agreed. I'd much rather see focus put on Liam's e-mail about the general fund-raising problem, the current solution to which is deploying overly large advertisements on Wikipedia in a few rich countries for several weeks. If we're willing to donate the entire screen space to an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation, it probably makes sense to at least reconsider whether a smaller, less obtrusive paid ad for a company or organization would be better. I imagine many companies and organizations would be willing to pay a premium for a much smaller ad slot, given Wikipedia's level of traffic and the limited supply of ad space that we'd likely be willing to sell. At what point is having horribly large and intrusive ads worse than having much smaller and faster paid ad campaigns?
MZMcBride