[Wikipedia-l] public service ads in Wikipedia?

[Tony Sidaway]

Ray Saintonge said:
> NSK wrote:
>
>>On Friday 11 February 2005 02:37, Mark Williamson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Showing ads for, for example, anti-patent groups, gives the idea that
>>>Wikipedia supports these groups.
>>>
>>>
>>There are anti-smoking, education, science/math or anti-discrimination
>>ads,  too. I think it would be safe to show these ads.
>>
> Even in this "safe" group there could be difficulties.  Surely, there
> must be some smokers in the membership.  Others may have problems with
> the role of commercial enterprises in education.  The gay marriage
> issue  has two sides that look at discrimination in very different
> issues.

Wikipedia material is GFDL. Wikimedia Foundation can and should employ
whatever fundraising methods it thinks are optimal.  Anybody who doesn't
like the methods still gets to use the product on their own fork.  Free as
in speech.