On 24/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/10/2007, Nick
<heligolandwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
We need an
open and sensible discussion about adverts, but I suspect this
won't be happening. It's not upto the users now, it's solely upto the
board
> and if they want to try and run Wikipedia on donations, it's their
> prerogative.
Nothing is solely up to the foundation. Plenty of
people have made it
clear they would leave/fork if adverts were added to Wikipedia. If the
foundation wants to continue to have projects to host, they need to
listen to what their users want. They understand this, I think it very
odd that so many users seem not to.
It is also worth noting that this has happened already - a few years
ago pretty much the whole Spanish Wikipedia just got up and left
because the notion of ads was even floated (though this may have been
just a last straw) - so caution is well advised.
- d.