[Wikipedia-l] Re: Fundraising

Wed Jun 9 01:36:07 UTC 2004

On 06/08/04 09:18, Marco Krohn 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.
> I know I am opening Pandora's box, but if we need some constant revenue stream 
> then this is something we should at least think about. As long as there is an 
> easy way to remove ads, e.g. logged in users can switch ads off (or on) by 
> changing their preference entries, I would found it an acceptable solution.

After the last time ads were even *suggested* led to a fork from es and a pile
of contributors up and leaving for the fork, I suggest this idea is unlikely
to fly.

- d.