[Wikipedia-l] Re: Fundraising

Tue Jun 8 15:23:02 UTC 2004

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:18:57 +0200, Marco Krohn <marco.krohn at web.de> wrote:
> what about _limited_ ads? With limited I mean that individual wikipedias (en,
> de, fr,...) can decide on their own if they want to increase Wikipedias
> revenue stream or not, e.g. if "es" doesn't want ads no ads on their pages
> will be shown. An additional option would be showing ads to anonymous viewers
> only or vice versa to logged in users only, as far as they agree with that.
> Me for example wouldn't mind if I see some ads if I know that this increases
> Wikipedias revenue stream a bit.

If there are any ads (not likely) I think they will be opt-in by user,
not by Wikipedia.