[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Thu Mar 20 01:14:00 UTC 2008

I'm saying that the Foundation needs a source of revenue to ensure its
longterm survival,
and your suggestion is that folks use blogs to raise advertising dollars and
that the
WMF set up an "opt-in" advertising scheme? For what purpose? It would be
barely
supplemental to the current fundraising drive. How many people would opt in?
A few
hundred? What would advertising on low profile blogs in the name of
Wikimedia bring in?
Some small number of thousands? You, Plourde and Todd Allen, are against
advertising
and your opinion is known. Your suggestions are not viable alternatives, and
your
claim to know that the community will fork (which is not the end of the
world) is supported
seemingly by a hunch.

Nathan

On 3/19/08, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> > How many times does this have to be pounded home? If you put ads in
> > WP or any other project, there would be a fork. Look at the Spanish
> > WP if you don't believe me. However why don't we look at a opt in
> > adsense skin?
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> So?  That's their right.  I don't foresee a fork being nearly as
> successful, because they'll be struggling just to get together hosting
> costs while WMF is able to use their millions in new ad revenue to make
> everything a lot better.  Imagine all the improvements that could be
> made to MediaWiki with a lot more paid staff ('What You See Is What You
> Get' editing would just be the beginning).
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> Ben "Cyde Weys" McIlwain    ( http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/ )
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