[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

Thu Mar 20 18:14:30 UTC 2008

Great thoughts, and I like where you're going with this. A global
policy from the Foundation saying, "we have ads that can
be enabled, if your project so chooses to support the Foundation
as such" would work well. Then it would be up the individual
communities to decide how ads fit in with their values and
their views on our global principles. As you say, it could very
well be that Jawiki and Enwiki take two different stances.

And this is a good thing! I would very much support such a
direction, as it would put the decision solely in the projects
hands. It would also (probably) keep the smaller projects
ad-free, which wouldn't be huge sources of revenue anyway
due to their lower traffic as compared to the top language
'pedias.

Even if all projects don't adopt it, /some/ adopting it would still
increase revenue without having to put ads all over every site.
(Potentially, give projects options between search-ads only
or on search and articles).

-Chad

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
>  > Let's assume projects can opt-out, and this must be approved
>  > by the Board (as they are ultimately responsible for fiscal
>  > matters). For the sake of arguments, let's pretend enwiki came
>  > to a fairly clear consensus that they wished to opt-out of WMF
>  > ads. Wouldn't this basically kill the entire ads cash-cow right
>  > there?
>  >
>  > Now, continuing this scenario, I can imagine the Board would
>  > probably reject an opt-out from the largest project. This begs
>  > the question: does the Foundation see all projects in an
>  > equal light?
>  >
>  > -Chad
>
>
>  That's an excellent question !
>
>  I am tempted to return it back first.
>
>  If all the languages were voting independently from one another, for
>  opt-in or opt-out... how would you feel if en.wiki would vote for "no
>  ads", whilst ja.wiki vote for "yes" ?
>  Would you rather consider the global project, or would you be willing to
>  accept diversity ? Should it be a global decision, or a local one ?
>
>  I guess that a global decision would make the issue a "core principle"
>  whilst a local decision would make the advertisement issue a "mild
>  principle".
>
>  ant
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