[Foundation-l] A modest proposal: ads on wikipedia.com

Mon Apr 23 03:09:17 UTC 2007

On 4/22/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I like this idea. I think wikipedia.com could be an excellent place to
> have a page of the type:
>
> "Welcome to Wikipedia.
>
> Wikipedia is not like other web companies out there. [a bit of
> passionate text about what makes us different] Now, if you want to
> read Wikipedia content, please go to .. If you want to support
> Wikipedia, please go to .."
>
> This would allow us to retain redirects from article URLs as well.

I'd support doing that right away unless there's a good reason not to,
actually. :-)

-Kat

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