[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Thu Mar 20 15:50:07 UTC 2008

Thanks Jimmy. I think a good step, opposed to advertising or not, is to
pursue
information about the options, opinions, and potential of advertising and
Wikimedia.
Can you comment on in what circumstances or at what point the Board would
consider a step like that?

Nathan

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> I take no sides in this discussion, but I would just like to note that
> this last bit is not really true.  In the unlikely event that the
> Foundation decided to take advertising in some limited fashion on the
> search results page or similar (and I should note that this is an
> interesting discussion in the community, but not something the board is
> actively interested in or considering at all) it would be quite simple
> to accept only pre-approved ads, and to mark them quite clearly as not
> part of the content, etc.
>
> There are grave and legitimate concerns about what accepting advertising
> would do to the perception of neutrality of Wikipedia, but it is worth
> noting that worst case scenarios are easily avoidable.
>
> I remain opposed to putting ads in Wikipedia.  (I have to say that in
> case anyone wants to suggest the opposite.)
>
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