[Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentially increasing costs)

Thu Oct 27 13:11:43 UTC 2005

Hoi,
I was at Wikimania and I do not even know that this poll was held. There may
have been a presentation about this, there may have been a "hands up" but
the amount of people present at this presentation do not represent all those
that were at Wikimania. The suggestion that it truly represents the ideas of
those that were at Wikimania is a fallacy. The suggestion that it represents
the ideas of the Wikimedia crowd is even more rediculous; what do you base
this on ??

As the mail says "apparantly" it is not even sure there was such a poll and
certainly it does not express the opinion of all those that were at
Wikimania.

Thanks,
GerardM

On 10/27/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan Grey wrote:
> >On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> >> A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently dedicated to Wikipedia
> >> to spend their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005,
> >> wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to me.
> >> Maybe it does to you.
>
> >I think you're under-estimating the total number of editors WP has,
> >over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance.
> >Where'd you get that figure from anyway?
>
> This list:
>
> http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004659.html
>
> "Apparently a poll was done at Wikimania and 2/3 of people were
> against it and 1/3 said they'd leave. So yeah, there's one good
> argument not to have ads, I guess. I just can't figure out what any of
> the other ones are."
>
> (I've only just noticed it was posted by Anthony DiPierro, who may or
> may not be a primary source - was he at Wikimania?)
>
>
> - d.
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