The community decides what it wants and what it doesn't want.
The community can decide to change what it wants. And the voice of the community
supercedes all other things.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 2:40 am
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] RfC: Free advertisements on Wikinews
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:06 -0500, wjhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
Public-service broadcasting does have ads. For one
they advertise
themselves, they also advertise their own sponsors ("Paid for by the
Annenburg Group"... and so on).
But the sort of advertisement of which we're speaking isn't that sort
anyway. Broadcast media forces the consumer to watch it from
beginning to end, you can't flip back and forth through the pages.
Newspring advertisement can be completely ignored, not read at all,
you can't do that with broadcast advertisement except to turn off the
television when the ads come on.
So I think we're not like a broadcast at all. We're like a print
vehicle, where a reader can flip from page 2 to page 15 then back to
page 7 at their whim. The advertisements are not in-your-face.
I suggest - before anyone else wastes *any* time on this they read the
WMF and Wikinews mission statements quite carefully.
This can't be done as part of a WMF project - I'm surprised anyone even
proposed it.
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
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